The first documented history dates back to 973.[1]
The early surname of this noble Bergamo family was “de Preposulo”. It has remained until now in the coat of arms of the Counts Passi de Preposulo in abbreviated form, and was in use, especially in Latin, until the eighteenth century.
They began to be called "Passi" when, in 1307, Ottopasso de Preposulo helped negotiate the peace between the Guelphs and Ghibellines in Bergamo. Since then they have been called "quelli de la pas" from which “the Pas” and then “the Passi”.
The first mention dates back to a Henricus de Preposulo, filius quondam Petri Federici, Sacri Palatii judicis (Archive of the Cathedral of Bergamo).
They distinguished themselves as magistrates, in arms, in letters and, in particular, in the ecclesiastical field.
The family was admitted in 1743 to the Council of the Nobility of Bergamo and acquired the comital title.[2]
Villa Tiepolo-Passi
One of the properties of the family, acquired in the first half of the eighteenth century, is the Villa Tiepolo-Passi in Carbonera, Veneto.[1] The Hollywood actress Jessica Chastain was married in June 2017 to a current member of the family,
Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo.[3]
Family
Marco Celio Passi, di Fermo, di Enrico and di Luca, count, knight and noble, doctor of law, (1828–1897), son of Fermo and of noblewoman Elisabetta Zineroni. He married, firstly, Giulia of the Counts Valier, patrician of Venice, and secondly, Carolina of the Counts Passi, with whom he had:
Count Alessandro Fermo (1860–1903), married Giuseppina of the Counts Mozzi, from which:
Ippolita (1884–1975), married a lawyer, Plinio Donatelli;
Giulia (1886–1971), married the Marquis Francesco Tacoli;
Marco Celio (1888–1890);
Modesta (1889–1967);
Maria Luisa (born 1891), married three times sequentially to: Marquis Filippo Tacoli; Captain Carlo Cavalli; noble Leone Tiberelli;
Benedetta (born 1893)
Angelina (1895–1977), married the General Giacomo Papi;
Livia (1897–1982).
Count Arduisio Enrico Matteo, doctor of law, Italian official, (1862–1945), married Maria dei contiMappelli-Mozzi, (1865–1943; a sister of Paolo Mapelli Mozzi, a twice great-grandfather of Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi), with issue:
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