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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).
As a guild craft, roofing would normally have been closed to Jews during the era when surnames came into use amongst the guild classes.
According to de Felice's extensive studies of phone books and other records (much of his research is financed by SEAT , Italy's telephone service), the most common of all surnames in Calabria is Rotundo , which means obese.
However, the source Brown uses for Dutch names is hardly adequate: Van der Aa's biographical dictionary only describes well-known Dutch persons and isn't meant to be an overview of all the surnames in use.
The modest paperback can be regarded as a complementary volume to the author's earlier work, A Dictionary of English Surnames, published in 1986.