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Early Origins of the Fiorentini family

The surname Fiorentini 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 Fiorentini family

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Fiorentini Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Fiori, Fioa, Fior, Fiorello, Floris, Flores, Dal Fiore, Dalla Fior, Di Fiore, La Fiore, Fiorelli, Fiorella, Fiorita, Fiorito, Fioruzzi, Fioroni, Fiorato, Fiorese, Fiordigiglio, Fiordalisa, Fiordelisi, Dal Fiore, Fiorellino and many more.

Early Notables of the Fiorentini family

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Migration of the Fiorentini family

Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Alonso Flores, who settled in Mexico in 1539; Michael Floris, who arrived in Philadelphia in 1739; Antonio Floris, who arrived in New Orleans in 1831.


Contemporary Notables of the name Fiorentini (post 1700) +

  • James J. Fiorentini, American Democratic Party politician, Alternate Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1972; Mayor of Haverhill, Massachusetts, 2004-11 1
  • Mario Fiorentini (1918-2022), Italian partisan, spy, mathematician, and academic, for years a professor of geometry at the University of Ferrara, Italy's most decorated World War II partisan


  1. The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, October 7) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html


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