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Basteri is specific to Massa, with a small stock also in Carrara and Parma, Bastero is practically unique, Bastieri, decidedly Tuscan, has a stock in Massa, one in Arezzo and one in Livorno, these surnames should derive from the medieval craft of bastiere o bastero, that is to say of builder of saddles and basti for pack animals, developed by the progenitor, we find traces of these surnames in an act of marriage of February 1471, in S. Maria in Campo in Florence, with which a certain painter Cosimo of Lorenzo di Filippo Rosselli he married such a Caterina Basteri, in Varese Ligure in the La Spezia area we find the notary family of the Basteri that began in 1577 with the notary Vincenzo Basteri senior.
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