Whether an Italian last name is world-renowned, commonplace, or stems from nature or ancestors' occupations, they're unforgettable. So, brush off your pasta presses because we're diving deep into some ...

Medieval Italian man Bartelomeo Colleoni's last name meant "balls" in Italian and his coat of arms featured testicle-inspired symbols. Bartelomeo Colleoni was a well known Italian military captain in ...

The Italian Constitutional Court in Rome said that automatically assigning children just the surnames of their fathers was constitutionally illegitimate. The court said parents should each have a say ...

April 28 (UPI) --Italy's constitutional court has ruled that newborns should bear the surnames of both parents, a move that the country's family minister called a "fundamental step in achieving equal ...