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Baggi is specific to the area that includes the provinces of Lodi, Milan and Bergamo. Baggini is quite rare and typical of the Pavia area. Baggio has two nucleuses, one in the Milanese and the Como area and one in the Veneto region between Vicenza, Padua and Treviso, Bagini, very rare. is from the north-east of Lombardy. The surname derives from the toponym Baggio, a suburb of Milan. Famous person was S. Anselmo from Baggio (1036-1086), from Mantua, bishop of Lucca who became Pope Alexander II. additions provided by Riccardo Baggio The famous character mentioned above is Anselmo da Baggio born around the year 1010, bishop of Lucca, who becomes Pope in 1061 with the name of Alexander II; he died in 1073 and was buried in Rome in the Lateran Basilica. Anselmo II ° from Baggio, nephew of the previous one, born in 1035-1036, he too bishop of Lucca (by appointment of his uncle Pope), spiritual adviser of Matilde di Canossa, is the patron saint of Mantua where he died in 1086 and where he is buried in the floor of the Duomo. The Baggio family then resided in Milan in a fortress-house in that of Brera - Ponte Vetero; from 1054 to 1056 Anselm occupies the Parish Church of Cesano, near Baggio (Roman "Badaglum"), a place of origin of the family and with a donation to build the church of S. Apollinare ; in Milan he founded the Oratory of Sant'Ilario in today's Via Lauro.
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