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Italians are not the only ones to live with the burden of insulting surnames, of course.
Emidio de Felice, the maestro of Italian anthroponymy and author of I Cognomi Italiani (Bologna: Il mulino, 1981) and Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (Milano: A. Mondadori, 1978), has estimated that no fewer than 15 per cent of all Italian surnames have their origin in nicknames.
As in other European countries, what probably sparked the spread of surnames was the emergence of larger states that began to centralize tax collecting and other authority.
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.
In Eckler's paper on Single-Letter Surnames we learn that all letters exist as a surname (and are overwhelmingly likely to be held by people of Oriental ancestry, p. 264), and only Q is missing.