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Thank you, John, for setting us straight. "Ventura" bothered me subliminally. Giovanni Battista Venturi was Italian, so shouldn't the singular be venturo, or is it one ventura, two venture ?-)
For many Italian family names the final "i" is the Latin genitive, corresponding to the Anglo-Saxon final "s" or "son". So the first Venturi, several centuries ago, could have been the son of someone named "Venturo".
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