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Cati family

The Cati family, also known as Cato or Cato (Cati), was an Italian family originating in Lendinara and active in Ferrara, Padua and the Polesine. The Ferrarese branch is the best documented and included sixteenth-century jurists, diplomats, administrators and men of letters connected with the House of Este. The principal documented members of the Ferrarese line belonged to the legal and diplomatic world of the sixteenth century. Ludovico Cato, his sons Renato, Sigismondo and Ercole, and their descendants were active in university law, court service, diplomacy, translation, political writing and historiography. Older literary historiography also grouped Ludovico, Renato and Sigismondo among the jurists associated with the reputation of the University of Ferrara. The spelling of the name varies. The Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani uses the form Cato (Cati) for Ludovico, Renato and Ercole, and notarial and genealogical material from the Polesine, Bologna, Ravenna, Venice and other Italian contexts records forms including Catti, Catta, Catto and de Cattis.

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• ▸Guardian Building
• ▸GWR 2251 Class
• ▸Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (Burlington, Vermont)

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