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I would like to know more about the meaning and origin, if anyone is familiar with this name. Here is what I have uncovered so far:
Name is female and appears to be Italian.
Past Svevas: There is a Countess Sveva della Gherardesca, born 1930 in Firenze (is that in Italy?) whose father was Walfredo, Count della Gherardesca. This info was found in the Romanov family records (b/c she married a prince Romanov). I have found another webpage that references a Signora Sveva Lucciola, "an Italian woman of the 15th c."
An Italian website gives this information: the origin is Latin, it is a derivative of Svebus, it means inhabitant of Svevia, and the name-day is November 1.
Does anyone know anything more, or anything about Svebus or Svevia?
TIA
Name is female and appears to be Italian.
Past Svevas: There is a Countess Sveva della Gherardesca, born 1930 in Firenze (is that in Italy?) whose father was Walfredo, Count della Gherardesca. This info was found in the Romanov family records (b/c she married a prince Romanov). I have found another webpage that references a Signora Sveva Lucciola, "an Italian woman of the 15th c."
An Italian website gives this information: the origin is Latin, it is a derivative of Svebus, it means inhabitant of Svevia, and the name-day is November 1.
Does anyone know anything more, or anything about Svebus or Svevia?
TIA
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My Italian name dictionary (Santi e Fanti by Enzo La Stella T.) says that Svevo/Sveva was originally an ethnic name for someone from Svevia, the Italian name for the region of Germany which is called Swabia in English.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swabia
La Stella goes on to say that one of the first examples of the male form Svevo was its use in the pen name Italo Svevo, by the author whose real name was Ettore Schmitz (1861-1928). He then mentions its use for a feminine pen name; the authors Nullo and Bice Cantaroni wrote novels which were bestsellers in Italy in the 1990s under the pen name Sveva Casati Modigliani.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swabia
La Stella goes on to say that one of the first examples of the male form Svevo was its use in the pen name Italo Svevo, by the author whose real name was Ettore Schmitz (1861-1928). He then mentions its use for a feminine pen name; the authors Nullo and Bice Cantaroni wrote novels which were bestsellers in Italy in the 1990s under the pen name Sveva Casati Modigliani.
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Thank you!
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