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Zaccaria
Zaccaria Zaccaria carries the antique weight of a Venetian ecclesiastical name — the church of San Zaccaria in Venice was one of the city's most prestigious convents, where doges' daughters took the veil. Characters with this name project old-world Venetian or Italian religious seriousness, suited to historical novels of the Serenissima, stories of Italian Catholic institutional life, and narratives of men whose old-fashioned names mark them as bearers of tradition.
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