The surname Bruno was first found in Florence (Italian: Firenze), originally the capital of Tuscany, then capital of the kingdom of Italy. The Bruno or Bruni family were originally from Arezzo but this part of their early history is not traceable. The Brunelli family are on record in Venicefrom 1151. During the 11th and 12th centuries the family branched from Florence south to Norman dominated Sicilywhere Giovanni di Bruno held a castle in Palermo in 1282.
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Prominent among members of the family was Leonardo Bruni (or Leonardo Aretino)
(c.1370-1444), an Italian humanist, historian and statesman; often called the first modern historian; Antonio Bruni of Manduria was a famous poet around 1600; Domenico Bruni
(c.1600-1666), an Italian painter of the Baroque period; the Brunelli family in…
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