| ![Show Contents]() Tasso History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
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 Italy Early Origins of the Tasso familyThe surname Tasso was first found in Bolgna (Latin: Bononia), the largest city and the capital of Emilia-Romagna Region. The famous University of Bolgna was founded in the 11th century, by the 13th century the student body was nearly 10,000. Dante and Petrarch studied there. Tisso was tried there for 1564 for writing satirical poems. Bologna naturally, is famous for its sausages. But many noted scholars were born there. In those ancient times only persons of rank, the podesta, clergy, city officials, army officers, artists, landowners were entered into the records. To be recorded at this time was in itself a family honor. Early History of the Tasso familyThis web page shows only a small excerpt of our Tasso research. Another 119 words (8 lines of text) covering the years 1516 and 1759 are included under the topic Early Tasso History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Tasso Spelling VariationsSpelling variations of this family name include: Tasso, Tassi, Tasselli, Tassetto, Tassino, Tassini, Tasini, Tasin, Tassotto, Tassone, Tassan, Tassano, Tassinari, Tasinato, Tassi, Tassonari, Tassano, Tassarini and many more. Early Notables of the Tasso familyProminent among members of the family was - the Tasso family of Bologna
 Tasso migration to the United States | + |
Some of the first settlers of this family name were: Tasso Settlers in United States in the 19th Century- Batista Tasso, who settled in Indiana sometime between 1856 and 1904
- John Tasso, who settled in Indiana sometime between 1892 and 1906
Tasso Settlers in United States in the 20th Century- Michele Tasso, who arrived in Arkansas in 1901 1
- Saverio Tasso, who settled in Boston in 1913
- Danasia Tasso, who settled in Pennsylvania in 1913
- Vincenzo Tasso, who settled in New York in 1914
| Contemporary Notables of the name Tasso (post 1700) | + |
- Torquato Tasso (1544-1595), Italian poet
- Bernardo Tasso (1493-1569), Italian poet
- Mr. Jonathan Tasso Atack M.B.E., British recipient of the Member of the Order of the British Empire on 29th December 2018 for services to education and to the British community in the Netherlands 2
- Tasso Adamopoulos (d. 2021), French violist of Greek origin born in Paris, he died from COVID-19
- Tasso Marchini (1907-1936), Serbian Modernist painter of mixed parentage, who spent most of his short life in Romania
- Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
- "Birthday and New Year Honours Lists (1940 to 2019)." Issue 62507, 28 December 2018 | London Gazette, The Gazette, Dec. 2018, www.thegazette.co.uk/honours-lists
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Tasso migration to the United States 
