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Luci seems to have many stocks around Italy, from Reggio and Cosenza, to the high Lazio, to the Perugian, to Tuscany, to the province of Imperia, Lucio is absolutely rare, they derive from the Latin praenomen Lucius of which we have an example in Life Tiberi of Suetonius: "... Cum praenominibus cognominibusque uariis distingueretur, Luci praenomen consensu repudiauit ...". additions provided by Andrea Manni The last name Luci could also derive from the name Luca (Lucas, Lucae) as well as from Lucio (see Lucii). The surname of a noble Luci di Colle Val d'Elsa family, with branches in Florence and Siena, is descended from Luca son of Berto who lived in the 1300s and was formerly reported as Luchi (see Luchi), Lucii and Luci. To this family belonged Emilio Luci born in Colle Val d'Elsa in 1546, governor of Siena and podestà of Orvieto. Other examples of the surname Luci are Lodovico di Mondino de 'Luci who lived in Lucca in 1300, the judge Zaccaria de' Luci who lived in Ferrara in 1300. In Tuscany the surname Luci (today more typical of the Florentine, Pisan and Livorno) could also derive from a toponym referable to a founder named Lucius plus the suffix -anus indicating possession: Luciana di Fauglia (Pisa), Luciana di Vernio (Prato ), Luciana di San Casciano (Florence), Lucciano di Poppi (Arezzo), Castello dei Luci (Pistoia). Moreover, in southern Etruria, between the low Tuscany, the high Lazio and the western Umbria, Luvci (Etruscan: Luvci, Latin: Lucius, Umbrian: Vuvçis, osco: Luvkis) is attested since the V sec. BC as a male and female Etruscan noble, particularly in Tarquinia and Volsinii. Lucius was also a praenomen widespread in the Latin world. For the strain of Reggio and Cosenza there are other hypotheses; the indirect derivation from the surname de Luci (or Lucij) of a Norman baronial family originally from Lucé in Normandy (Lucé da Lucius) arrived in the 11th century. in southern Italy with Gosbertus de Luci, married to a daughter of Ruggero I d'Altavilla, who had Luzzi in the Cosentino fiefdom to whom he gave the name: Lucius> Lutius> Luzzi. The Normans de Luci landed in England after 1064 were authors of the spread of surnames still existing today in the Anglo-Saxon world: Lucy, Luce, Lucey. According to another hypothesis in the Reggio area and in the Cosenza area, the Italianization of Greek or Arbëreshë (arvaniti) surnames arrived in Calabria from the end of the 15th century: Loukis, Lushi, Lluçi. On the other hand, Lluçi in Catalan is Lucio, in Germany and Holland there is the surname Lucius (ancient form Luci) and Lu? I? derives from the Latin names Lucas and Lucius. Examples of the surname Lucio (present in Venice, Piedmont, Naples, and also found in Spain as a surname) are Giovanni Lucio (1604-1679) Dalmatian historian born in the Republic of Venice, Francesco Lucio (1628-1658) Venetian composer.
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