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Vaccaro Coat of Arms and Name History

Vaccaro

Origin Displayed: Italian

Origins Available: Italian, Spanish

Spelling variations of this family name include: Vacca, Vacchi, Vacchelli, Vaccariello, Vaccarella, Vaccai, Vaccari, Vaccaro, Vaccarini, Vaccarino, Vaccaroni, Vaccher, Vacquer and many more.

First found in Saluzzo, Piedmont, where Alberta Vacca held the monastry in 1155.

Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: the Vaccaro family, consisting of D. Vaccaro, a 29 year-old farmer, his 25 year-old wife and their two year-old son. They arrived in Buffalo in 1891; having crossed the ocean onboard the SS Anglia.

Some noteworthy people of the name Vaccaro

Brenda Vaccaro (b. 1939), American actress
Cris Vaccaro, American professional soccer player
Sonny Vaccaro (b. 1939), American sports marketing executive
Tony Vaccaro (b. 1922), American photographer
Tracy Vaccaro (b. 1962), American model and actress
Alessandra Melucco Vaccaro (1940-2000), Italian historian and archaeologist
Angelo Vaccaro (b. 1981), Italian football player
Adolfo Vaccaro (b. 1927), Paraguayan football player and coach
Andrea Vaccaro (1600-1670), Neapolitan painter of the Baroque period
Leopold Saverio Vaccaro, reconstruction figure in post-World War I Italy
Lorenzo Vaccaro (1655-1706), Neapolitan late-Baroque sculptor
Mike Vaccaro, sports columnist for The New York Post

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RENAISSANCE

The Renaissance was a great rebirth of Classical art, literature, and science. It began in the Italian city-state of Florence in the 14th century and it was characterized by the spread of humanism and the beginning of objective scientific inquiry. Wealthy Florentine merchants and bankers such as the powerful Medici family, saw themselves as the heirs of the great figures of the ancient Roman Empire. Many of these families became the lavish patrons of artists and scholars in order to increase their own prestige and secure political power.