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Luchi is decidedly Tuscan, from Florence, Siena and Monsummano Terme in the Pistoia area, Luchin has a stock in Mezzocorona in Trentino and one in Badia Polesine in the Rovigoto, Luchini has various stocks, one very small in the lower Trentino, one from Friuli in San Giorgio della Richinvelda in the Pordenone area, one in the Tuscan area, from the Marche region of Perugia, with maximum concentration in Massarosa, Camaiore and Capannori in Lucca, Florence and Cortona in the Arezzo area, and one in Rome, Luchino, quite rare, is specific to San Mauro Torinese and Turin, should derive directly or through hypocoristic, even dialectal, from the name Luca. additions provided by Andrea Manni The surname Luchi is typically Tuscan, and has a main stock between Siena, Florence, Prato, Pistoia and Lucca; a secondary stock is also recorded in Trentino, where the Lucchi form is also present (widespread also in Emilia Romagna and in the Verona area). Luchi could derive from the personal name Luca (Lucas, Lucae or Luce) very widespread from the high medieval era in Tuscany, or it could derive from the Latin name of the city of Lucca (Lucas, Lucae). The surname Luchi is named by Giorgio Vasari in his "Lives of the most excellent Italian architects, painters, and sculptors" about the Florentine architect and sculptor Luca Fancelli, born in Settignano around 1430, who moved to Mantua towards the second mid-fifteenth century to collaborate with the famous Leon Battista Alberti: "And in those of Mantoa a Florentine Luca, who then living always in that city and dying left his name, according to Filareto, to the family de 'Luchi, which is still there today".
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