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Mingarini is specific to Forlì and Medicina and Ozzano in Emilia in the Bologna area, Mingazzi, very very rare, is specific to Ravenna, Minghelli, decidedly Emilian, is widespread in the area that includes the Modena, Bologna, Cesena and Ravenna areas. Minghetti is typical of the area covered by the provinces of Bologna and Ravenna, very rare Minghi is Tuscan, very rare Mingo is from Ancona, Mingolini, very rare, typical of the Ravenna area, Mingozzi is typically Emilia Romagna, common in Forlì, Ravenna and Cervia in Ravenna, in Ferrara, Portomaggiore and Argenta in the Ferrara area and in Bologna, San Giovanni in Persiceto and Castel San Pietro Terme in the Bologna area, all derive, directly or through various hypocoristic, or derogatory forms, from dialectical modifications of the apheresis of the name Dominicus or from State of laborer of the fields, we find traces of these surnames in Florence since the second half of the 1300s, as can be seen from this writing of 1386: "Statuta ordinamenta correctiones diminutiones additiones et detractiones statutorum communis Montis Summani provinces Vallis Nebule discrictus Florentie facta for probos viros Coluccium Bendelli, Gianum Tinghi, Johannem Dati and Andream Minghi baliam habentes a dicto commune Montis Summani ... ". An illustrious figure was the Bolognese Marco Minghetti (1818 - 1886), who from 1873 to 1876 was President of the Council of Ministers of the Kingdom of Italy.
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