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Avanzi has a stock in the Turin area and one in the area from Brescia to Rovigo and the Ferrara area. Avanzini should have two stocks, in the Parma area and in the area that includes Brescia, Mantua and Verona, Avanzino, much more rare is typical of Genoa, Avanzo has a stock in the Rovigoto and one in the Neapolitan, should all derive from the medieval name Avantius or Avancius of which we have an example to Mori (TN) with Avancius de Sano, in other cases they can also derive from Avanzino obtained from the apheresis of the well-august medieval name Diotavanzi (God make you grow well). We find traces of this surname in Como in the 1400s with the notary Giorgio Avanzini and between the 1400s and 1500s with the poet Hieronymus Avantius Veronensis.
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