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Still, we should be grateful that Waldseemuller opted for Vespucci's first name, for disguising the dull Henry in the voluptuous Amerigo is nothing compared to what Italians have done over the centuries when giving each other surnames.
But outside Venice, Italians did not begin to adopt hereditary surnames until the 14th and 15th centuries, a bit later than most of the rest of Europe, according to Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges, authors of the addictive A Dictionary of Surnames (Oxford University Press, 1988).
(How the Jewish names were treated is described in “The Jewish Family Names in the Oxford Dictionary of Surnames ,” Jewish Language Review 7, 1987, pp. 139-46.)
It contains entries, says the Introduction, “for most major surnames of European origin, as well as for many rarer ones.”
I was intrigued by Leslie Brunetta's description of Italian surnames, Frailty, Thy Name is Bevilacqua [XIX,2,1], in particular of Bevilacqua and Bévivino.