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ALCAINI | ALCAINO

Alcaini, extremely rare, is typical of Dossena (BG) Alcaino, almost unique it would seem to originate from Salento, should be of Basque origin, in the list of notaries of the Republic of Venice we find the notary Francesco Alcaini who exercised from 1580 to 1603 and in the acts of the pretoria chancellery of the municipality of Bergamo we find in a deed of 1617 a cession of assets to a certain Giovanni Maria Alcaini, it was Francesco. additions provided by Daniele Todeschini Alcaini is a surname originally from Dossena (BG) dating back to Roman times. The family was present in the so-called Bastazi company of the Venice customs.

Bibliographic source' "L'origine dei cognomi Italianim storia ed etimologia" di E. Rossoni disponibile online su: https://archive.org/


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