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Casnici is typical of the lower Brescia area, Mantua, in particular of Solferino, Cavriana and Castiglione delle Stiviere in Mantua, Casnighi is almost unique and occupies the same area, Casnico and Casnigo, extremely rare, are typical of the lower Brescia area, all these surnames should derive from the name of the town of Casinicum, medieval name of the current town of Casnigo in the Bergamo area, which was previously called Casnico, as is argued by notarial deeds of the 1500s, traces of these surnames we find in Leno in the Brescia area in the proceedings of a dispute of 1561: "... Pro domino Camillo Albino contra Iacomum fq Vincentii Casnici, Angelum et Iosephum eius filium de Gandelino sive of the Agnello de Gaijdo nec non et nobilem dominum Iosephum de Laude"; "Pro Camillo Albino instrumenta et executiones et actus contra Vincentium Casnicum et Iacomum eius filium et heredem, Angelum de Gandelino sive of the Lamb, Iosephum filium suprascipti Angels omnes de Gaido, et dominum Iosephum de Laude civem brixiensem eorum omnium laudatorem ...".
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