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Trento, Brescia, Verona and Bologna are the provinces with the highest concentrations of the surname Boninsegna, widespread throughout northern Italy, Boninsegni is typically Tuscan from the provinces of Florence and Arezzo, Bonsegna is specific to the area of Lecce, in particular to Nardò, these surnames originate from the medieval augural name Boninsegna with the meaning of marked by good, from luck, of this name we have an example, in a deed of 1218 where it reads: "... silicet Ildebrandino et Jacopo Cavalcantis et Ranerio Ranucci pro tertia parte et Gundo et Ranuccino et Bencivenni Gislincionis recipientibus pro se et Boninsegna predicto ... ".

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


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