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Bassani is typical of Lombardy and Veneto, with a strain in the Bolognese, Bassano, quite rare, it has a Campano, a Bolognese, a Livorno and a Ligurian one, Bazzani is very widespread in the area that includes Brescia, Verona, Mantua and Crema, Modenese and Bolognese and Florentine, they should all derive from the Latin cognomen Bassianus or Bassanus of which we have an example with Bassanus Mangus (340 - 250 BC) and then in the Carolingian period: "... Bassano multum debet Corvinus; honorem iure suo, gratum munificoque animum ... ", but it is also possible to derive from one of the many toponyms containing the root Bassano, such as Bassano Bresciano, Bassano del Grappa (VI), Bassano (AN), Bassano in Teverina (VT), Bassano Romano (RM) and others. We find traces of these surnames in Vignola (MO) in 1500 with the captain Giovanni Ludovico Bazzani factor of the counts from 1551 to 1555, in Jesi (AN) in 1600 with the priest Don Giandomenico Bazzani and in Mantua in 1700 with the painter Giuseppe Bazzani . additions provided by Giovanni Vezzelli The Bazzani Emilian lineage derives from the name of the Bolognese municipality of Bazzano, which in turn is a fundus Badianus, from the Roman era, from the Latin personal Badius. Source: F. Violi: Surnames in Modena and Modena, 1996
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