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Ancestry Hunting

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May 15th 2007
"Hello is Mrs Bent..ivg..olio.. there?" People mess up my last name allllll the time. In fact, if you don't, I am immediately impressed and automatically like you. Italy knows me! Italy is the ancestral home of the Bentivoglio family. I've always been brought up to be very proud of the name and the history of the family. The fact that the lineage can be traced back to the time of the ... read more

Europe » Italy » Emilia-Romagna » Bologna

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more