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THE ANGELO FAMILY confusion, this darkening of counsel, we are driven to his own baptismal register in the cathedral-church of Leghorn (the façade of which, by the way, was the work of Inigo Jones when a pupil of Palladio), where the secret is disclosed, and we find that his full, true, and undoubted name, stripped of all disguises, was Angiolo Domenico Maria Tremamondo. Such a tremendous name as this, however, was found to be quite inadmissible. So, for practical purposes, for daily use, acting also under the advice of Lord Pembroke, and of others of his noble patrons-he gradually, though reluctantly as the records prove, discarded both the names Malevolti and Tremamondo, and fell back on his own first Christian name of Angiolo or Angelo as a convenient and manageable surname. Hence "Angelo," standing severely alone, though not without a suggestion of the marquisate lurking behind it, is the one name appended to the dedication of his superb folio-volume on the art of fencing, and hence also, among the public generally, from King George III. down to the humblest stable- boy in the manège, Angelo was the name by which he and his brethren gradually became known then, and it is the name by which they and their descendants are known to the present day. Angelo Domenick Maria Tremamondo was the son of a prosperous merchant of the Via Giardino in Leghorn, having been the eldest of six brothers born in that city to James Tremamondo and Catherine Angela Malevolti his wife, a daughter of Nicolas Malevolti, of the same place. Evidently he derived his first Christian name, Angelo, from his mother, as he derived his second, Domenick, from his grandfather, and his third, Maria, from his godfather, and it was from his mother Angela, therefore, that the surname Angelo, xi