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Bonanni is widespread throughout central Italy, has strains also in the Florentine, in central eastern Liguria and in the Udine area. Buonanno is specific to Campania, to the provinces of Caserta, Naples and Benevento, all of which should derive from the auspicious name Bonusannus. Traces of this surname can be found in Pisa in 1130 with the man of letters Buonanno Bonanni, in Friuli in Cividale in 1300, in Irpinia in 1600 with the Buonanno family who settled in Solofra from Tuscany, in Sicily in 1600 with the painter Giuseppe Bonanni, in the second half of the 1600s in Paganica (AQ) with a Cesare Bonanni, mentioned in a tombstone: "... cum benefit Cesaris Bonanni de Paganica ..:", this surname in Paganica is still present since the end of 1200.
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