The importance of this family was widely described by the Paduan Giacomo Zabarella in his writing "The magnificent, that is, the masked virtue where all the sublime grandeurs of the Serenissima Republic of Venice and of the noble house of Zani are discovered".
The family appears to be originally from ancient Rome having as a distant ancestor Marco Vipsanio Agrippa known for being the winner of the battle of Actium which took place in 31 BC. C. and father-in-law of Augustus. Going forward with time, the surname Vipzanii was progressively altered into Sianii, Ciani, Ziani up to Zani
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