Corsini History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Italy

From the historical and enchanting Italian region of Tuscany emerged a multitude of noble families, including the distinguished Corsini family. During the Middle Ages, as populations grew and travel between regions became more frequent, the people of Tuscany found it necessary to adopt a second name to identify themselves and their families. The process of adopting fixed hereditary surnames was not complete until the modern era, but the use of hereditary family names in Italy began in the 10th and 11th centuries. Italian hereditary surnames were developed according to fairly general principles and they were characterized by a profusion of derivatives coined from given names. Although the most common type of family name found in Tuscany is the patronymic surname, which is derived from the father's given name, the nickname type of surname is also frequently found. Nickname surnames were derived from an eke-name, or added name. They usually reflected the physical characteristics or attributes of the first person that used the name. The surname Corsini is a name for a person who habitually wished everyone a good day, or who was a cheerful and happy person. The surname Corsi was originally derived from the Italian medieval given name Bonoaccorso, and is rendered in early documents in the Latin form of the name Accirsus.

Early Origins of the Corsini family

The surname Corsini was first found in the town of Poggibonsi, which lies south of Florence. Corsini is "the name of a Florentine princely family, of which the founder is said to be Neri Corsini, who flourished about the year 1170. Like other Florentine nobles the Corsini had at first no titles, but in more recent times they received many from foreign potentates and from the later grand dukes of Tuscany. The emperor Charles IV. created the head of the house a count palatine in 1371." 1

Early History of the Corsini family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Corsini research. Another 146 words (10 lines of text) covering the years 1170, 1302, 1373, 1374, 1377, 1411, 1472, 1550, 1620, 1629, 1644, 1652, 1678, 1688, 1730, 1732, 1842, 1845 and 1911 are included under the topic Early Corsini History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Corsini Spelling Variations

Italian surnames come in far more variations than the names of most other nationalities. Regional traditions and dialects are a decisive factor in this characteristic. For example, northern names tend to end in "o", while southern in "i". Also important, but not unique to Italy, was the fact that before dictionaries and the printing press most scribes simply spelled words according to their sounds. The predictable result was an enormous number of spelling variations. The recorded spellings of Corsini include Corsi, Corso, Del Corso, Corselli, Corsello, Corsellini, Corsetti, Corsetto and many more.

Early Notables of the Corsini family

Prominent among members of the family was

Saint Andrew Corsini, O.Carm. (1302-1373), an Italian Carmelite friar and bishop of Fiesole
Filippo Corsini of Florence, who was a judge and a law professor
Amerigo Corsini was a banker and an ecclesiastic, and in 1411 was made Bishop of Florence
Agostino Corsini, born in 1688 in Bologna, was also a talented painter. The most notable and probably most famous member who shares the Corsini heritage was Lorenzo Corsini (1652-1678), who was made Pope in...

Corsini migration to the United States +

In the immigration and passenger lists a number of early immigrants bearing the name Corsini were found:

Corsini Settlers in United States in the 18th Century

Joh Fred Franciscus Corsini, who arrived in Pennsylvania in 1753 2

Corsini Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

Manuel Corsini, who arrived in Puerto Rico in 1875 2
Andrea Corsini, aged 42, who settled in America, in 1894
Adelaide Corsini, aged 9, who immigrated to America, in 1895

Corsini Settlers in United States in the 20th Century

Amos Corsini, aged 22, who landed in America from Firenze, Pistoia, in 1907
Augustin Corsini, aged 9, who settled in America from Firenze, Italy, in 1910
Agostino Corsini, aged 30, who landed in America from Cireglio, Italy, in 1911
Alexandra Corsini, aged 45, who immigrated to the United States from Moscow, Russia, in 1911
Ardio Corsini, aged 14, who immigrated to the United States from Pistoria, Italy, in 1914
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Contemporary Notables of the name Corsini (post 1700) +

Claudia Corsini (b. 1977), Italian two-time Olympic modern pentathlete
Andrea Corsini (1735-1795), Italian cardinal
Catherine Corsini (b. 1956), French film director and screenwriter

Citations +

Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh Edition. London: A & C Black, 1911. Print
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)