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Fenari, absolutely rare, is Lombard, as is the less rare Fenaroli, which is specific to the area that includes Milan, Brescia and Bergamo in particular, in Tavernola Bergamasca, Predore, Sarnico, Villongo, Solto Collina and Roncola, in the Brescia area we find it in particular in Pisogne, Brescia, Passirano, Marone, Corte Franca and Iseo, and in Milan in Milan and Monza, they should derive, directly or through a hypocoristic form, from a nickname of the founders, originating from a trade linked to hay, as a farmer or trader of hay. We find traces of these surnames in Bergamo since 1500, in 1521 a certain Donato Fenaroli is prior of the convent of the Crociferi of San Leonardo, we can read in the De Origine et Temporibus Urbis Bergomi, Venetiis, for Iohannem Antonium et fratres de Sabio, 1532: "... Ventura Fenarolus ex coniuratis unus, servituti mortem anteponens gladio Catonis uticensis exemplo, if if transfodit ...", in 1700 the noble Fenaroli are landowners in Adro (BS). additions provided by Giacomo Ganza / Villa di Tirano (Sondrio) this surname is quite common in Lombardy, especially in the provinces of Bergamo and Brescia, but also in the Milanese area, but in other Italian regions it is more sporadic. Recent studies attest to its importance and diffusion in the province of Brescia: especially in Brescia city, Pisogne, Iseo and Marone. Moreover the progenitor of the Fenaroli from Brescia is from Bergamo, he is Giacomo of Tavernola Bergamasca, reported in that area already in 1200. The surname derives from an old profession, that of hay merchants.
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