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Bersan is specific to the Verona area, Bersani is typical of northern Italy with its epicenter in Emilia and in the south of Lombardy, Bersano is decidedly Piedmontese, deriving from the medieval name Bersanus of which we have an example in the Brescia Diplomatic Code in a Cartula Venditionis dated 15 March 1198 in Nuvolento (BS): "... Signum + manum testium ibi fuerunt Bersanus conversus and Iohannes Verone, Leonardus atque Truckellus de Cuncis testes rogati ...". In 1436 Chilisto de Bersani from Brescia was elected Podestà of Scalve directly from the Venetian Republic, in the early 1700s we find a Giulio Cesare Bersani Croce capitaneo of the city of Monza. additions provided by Giovanni Vezzelli How the surnames Bresciani and Bressàn (of Veneto area) indicate their provenance from Brescia, as well as the Modenese Bersani, which is the emilian dialectal form bersàn «bresciano». Source: F. Violi, surnames in Modena and Modena, 1996.
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