I have some data about the family of the famous Casanova from Venice. Casanova was really a family (If you are looking for a meaning: Casa = house, Nova = new) but I can't say if there was a branch of the Casanova family in the south of Italy. Write to me if you found a Venetian origin. "Lidia" <lidia@mail2me.com.au> ha scritto nel messaggio news:aeghrf$bm6$1@merki.connect.com.au... > does anybody knows if casanova in the year 1890 in Fuscaldo, Foggia was > referent to a family name or a type of man? this is because I am lookink for > my ancestors and I was told my untie married a casanova at the port when all > her family went to argentina to emigrate She was so in love with this man > that they married just before the family left the country. > >