Late Period Italian Women's Names: Venice

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Version 1.1, updated 26 January 2013

Venice

These names are taken from the 15th and 16th century records of La Virgine; here nuns mostly kept their original names rather than changing them when they became nuns. Some women were recorded with just their given names. But most are recorded, at least in some contexts, with either a family name or with their father's name and a family name (in the form di <father's name> <family name>).

The names here reflect a few trends typical of the northern dialect spoken in Venice. Names that in modern Italian would start with Gi- or Ci- often start with Z-. Zaneta and Zuana are forms of Gianna, which is a variant of Giovanna. Similarly, Zilia is a form of Cecilia. Masculine names (and the family names derived from them) sometimes drop the final vowel that they would have in modern Italian: Constantin, Marin, and Bassadoar are examples of this.

• Feminine Given Names from the 15th and 16th Centuries
• Some Earlier Feminine Given Names With Dates
• Masculine Given Names
• Family Names
• Descriptive Bynames

Masculine Given Names
(relatives and those names found in patronyms, mostly from 1478-1503)
Alvise Andrea Angelo Barenus	Benedetto Bernardo Cipriano Constantin	Domenico Francesco Giorgio Giovanni	Hyeronimo Leonardo Marco Marin / Marino	Martino Mathio Niccolo Piero Vicenzo / Vincenzo
There is one example of a double given name: Giovanni Francesco
Family Names
Avonal Badoer Barbaro Barozzi Bascio Bassadoar Bellegno Bembo Benedetti Bernardo Boldu Bon Bondimier Bonzi	Bragadin Capello Contarini Corner da Canal da Chioza da Molin da Montefeltro Dalle Boccole Dandolo di Prioli Donato / Donado Falier	Foscari Foscarini Frescobaldi Garzoni Ghezzo Giustiniani Gradenigo Grimani Lego/da Leze Lignago Lion Longo Loredan Luppi	Malipiero Marcello Marin Matelizi Mauroceno Memo Michel / Michiel Morosini Mudazo Orsini Palmio Pisani Priuli Querini	Riccoboni Sanudo Spizega Tiepolo Trevisan Valier Venier Viari Vitelli Zane Zani Ziani Zorzi Zustignan

Descriptive Bynames

There are two literal descriptive bynames attached to existing family names:

la grande		"the big"
la piccolo		"the very little"

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