ACADEMY OF SAINT GABRIEL REPORT 3339 http://www.s-gabriel.org/3339 ************************************ 26 Jul 2007 From: Aine Steele Greetings from the Academy of Saint Gabriel! You asked for our opinion of as a 15th century Italian name. Here is what we found. is found 835 times between 1282 and 1532 in Florence [1]. It is a fine name for your period. We find the feminine version as a variant of in the 15th century [2], so it is reasonable to assume the spelling also occurred in this time period. The byname is modern Italian; the earliest instance we can find is in 1928 [3]. Its origin is the Czech byname , where {/} represents an acute accent over the preceding letter. This Czech byname is found as early as 1494 [4]. Because we cannot find any examples of as an Italian byname before modern times, we cannot recommend it as a byname for 15th century Italy. We found two bynames similar to in 15th century central Italian documents that you might want to consider [5, 6]: Andreozzi (1438) Andreozzo (1427) I hope this letter has been useful. Please write us again if any part of it has been unclear or if you have other questions. I was assisted in researching and writing this letter by Talan Gwynek, Maridonna Benvenuti, Aryanhwy merch Catmael, Mari neyn Brian and Ursula Georges. For the Academy, Aine Steele 17 July 2007 ----------------------------------------------------- References [1] Friedemann, Sara L., "Italian Given Names from the Online Tratte of Office Holders 1282-1532" (WWW: Self-published, 2001-2002) http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/italian/florence1282-1532.html [2] Gregory, Heather, "Selected Letters of Alessandra Strozzi". University of California Press, 1997. [3] Ciceran, Marisa and Michael Plass, "Mario Andretti, Prominent Istrians" (WWW: Self-published, 1999). http://istrianet.org/istria/illustri/andretti/index.htm [4] Franges^, Ivo. "Povijest hrvatske knjiz^evnosti" Zagreb, 1987. (WWW: Zagreb City Libraries) http://www.kgz.hr/izdanja/godisnjice/detail.asp?id=1736&ses=1-5-2007- 8-a-0-0-0 [5] Herlihy, David, R. Burr Litchfield, and Anthony Molho, "Florentine Renaissance Resources: Online Tratte of Office Holders 1282-1532" (WWW: Brown University, Providence, RI, 2000). http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/tratte/ [6] Ferrante laVolpe, _Men's names from Florence, 1427_ (WWW: Self- published, 1996; Academy of Saint Gabriel, 1999). http://www.s- gabriel.org/names/ferrante/catasto/