Ambrosi History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

The surname Ambrosi was first found in Bolgna (Latin: Bononia), the largest city and the capital of Emilia-Romagna Region. The famous University of Bologna 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.

As both a forename and surname, we are reminded of the famous Italian painter of the Sienese school, Ambrogio Lorenzetti (c. 1290-1348.) He painted The Allegory of Good and Bad Government in the Sala dei Nove (Salon of Nine or Council Room) in Siena's Palazzo Pubblico. His elder brother was the painter Pietro Lorenzetti.

As a surname, Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis (c. 1455- c. 1508) comes to mind. He was an Italian Renaissance painter, illuminator and designer of coins active in Milan. He gained a strong reputation as a portraitist, including as a painter of miniatures, at the court of Ludovico Sforza. He was born in a family of artists from Lombardy.