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in reply to a message by maire
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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