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Sources

One of the main sources of information is the Family archive in the UK
There are letters written by Marco Aurelio and his father and his brother Achille.
There are several scrapbooks of things he thought to be important.
There are his guitars
There are many photos taken mainly by his son Cesar.
There are the diaries of Cesar's wife Juliana

The family in Australia also have information

Simon Wynberg

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Simon Wynberg has written an excellent biography of Marco.
Much of his information was from the family archive in the UK 
He later joined forces with Marc Van de Cruys - see below

Mark Van de Cruys

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Mark Van de Cruys has written an excellent book about Marco. Much of his source material is from archives in Belgium where he lives and where Marco  Aurelio also lived . 
Mark speaks many languages and is better able than many of us to transcribe and translate the old letters and other documents.
He and Simon Wynberg, on discovering that they were researching the same man, combined their efforts

Negri

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Dr Auguste Negri, a Venetian scholar,  was commissioned to conduct a genealogical investigation into the  family in 1903.

Click HERE to read more of Negri's book


Fantuzzi

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Notizie degli scrittori bolognesi, Volumes 8-9 By Giovanni Fantuzzi  aboutb 1784
In Italian  - it starts about page 243
Several pages


     Gamurrini

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Eugenio Gamurrini wrotel'Istoria genealogica delle famiglie nobili toscane, et umbre
The genealogical of the Noble Families of Tuscany and Umbre
1668

Dolfi

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Dolfi wrote Cronologia delle famiglie nobili di Bologna
in Italy in about 1670
The Zani section starts at page 750
Several pages
It is in Italian
written about 1790
At the back of the book he shows a different coats of arms
for Zani as shown below

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Zani arms as shown at the back of Dolfi's book

Crescenzi 1642

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Gamurrini refers to a paragraph in this book by Crescenzi
on page 400

The Florence Archives 

ON-LINE

The Bologna Archive

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Ferranti and Zani  Family
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2013