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Nieri is specific of upper Tuscany, Lucca and Lucca, Niero is typical of the Veneto, of Venice and of the Venetian in particular, they should derive from modifications of the Latin cognomen Nero, but it is also possible that they derive from the apheresis of names like Raniero or Ranieri. We find traces of this surname in La Nuova Chronica G. Villani from the year 1323: "... In the aforementioned year MCCCXXIII, in October XXII of October, a betrayal was discovered in Pisa which had ordered Castruccio, lord of Lucca with Messer Betto Malepa de 'Lanfranchi and with IIII German conastaboli, to have the count Nieri killed and the son and more others who governed the city, ... ".
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