Pesavento is a Venetian surname, particularly from the Vicenza area and Paduan with presences also in the Veronese and Venetian areas, it should derive from a nickname probably originated from the fussiness of the founder or from his excessive pedantry. We find traces of this surname in Asiago in the Vicenza area since the second half of the 1600s with a certain Antonio Pesavento cited as a tenant in an act relating to the lands of the Posteler mountain: "1683, ae 10 August, in Roana, in my house nodaro, present Dominico, my filgliolo et messer Antonio quondam Zuane della Costa, all duoi of Roana, witnesses. Stay with the present stabelitto and stopped as the governors lords, first Signor Giovanni Steffano Sartori, messer Tomaso Vellar, messer Ciprigian Friggo, sirglio Marcho Antonio Bernar, messer Zamaria Friggo of Gobbi, me nodaro under written, messer Piero Muraro, messer Tomaso of Fabri, we do in the name of the other colegga and of all the generality, we habituated given and afited to messer Antonio quondam Giacomo Pesavento of Asiago the present of Messer Marcho his filgliolo of Asiago the mountain of Posteler, from within his usual boundaries, as for the past, for years tri prosimi venturi, that is, of printipiar the year 1684 and will finish them September 24, 1686, for the pretio of rent of ducatti fifty duoi ... ".
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