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Typically Lombard, from Lecco, Valtellina and Bergamo, it should derive from modifications of the Germanic name Guislan, we find traces of this surname since 1500 in Vicenza and Venice, in Vercurago (LC) in a deed of 1534 we read: "In Christi nomine. Amen Die quarter mensis aprilis thousandth quintentesimo trigesimo fourth, indictione septima, on site de Caloltio vallis Sancti Martini, .. .. who coheret to mane coris arcis de Vercurago partly and partly muratellus de Tremasasso, with meridus dominus Thomas quondam de Ghislanzonibus de Barchio, a sero heredes Antonii Georgii de Aroldis de Somascha and a montibus suprascriptus venditor ... ", also in Vercurago from 1617 to 1632 a certain Giovanni Andrea Ghislanzoni is parish priest of the village, in Deck of Valtellina in an act of January 1686 he is the rich Ghislanzoni family is mentioned. An illustrious character of the nineteenth century was the writer and librettist of Opera Antonio Ghislanzoni of Barco di Maggianico (LC), famous above all for the libretto of Aida by Giuseppe Verdi.
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