The Panteghini family is an Italian family, with

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, proto-

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, established in

Bienno Bienno (Camunian dialect, Camunian: ) is an Italian ''comune'' in Val Camonica, province of Brescia, Lombardy. It is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia ("The most beautiful villages of Italy"). Geography The village is located in Val Grigna, o ...

, recognised as one of the 5 Most Beautiful Villages of

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, near the city of

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, in

Val Camonica Val Camonica or Valcamonica (), also Valle Camonica and anglicized as Camonica Valley, is one of the largest valleys of the central Alps, in eastern Lombardy, Italy. It extends about from the Tonale Pass to Corna Trentapassi, in the c ...

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. Its etymological origin could be both Greek (Πάντε = all) and Latin (Genus = origin, genus, species), and could mean " ''from all origins'' " by its European multi-cultural roots already in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries . Bienno Borgo Antico

In 1483, the Signor Panteghini, coming from the

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, according to legend, at the time of annexation of Val Camonica, settles in Bienno, and build his House, the Casa Panteghini. In 1932, Contess Paolina d'Ostia Fè Montholon disappears, after a fatal hunting accident, in the pine forest, caused by her husband, the Count Charles Jean Tristan de Montholon, * descendant from François de Montholon (v. 1480–1543), 1st

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's president,

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in 1542 * son of

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, suspected to have poisoned

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, but this allegation remains contradicted by some historians. However, it could have been another reason, his wife

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probably being returned from Saint Helena with an illegitimate child of Napoleon. * and brother of Hélène Charlotte Napoléone Bonaparte de Montholon, whose father could be

, and let the inferiors floors of their palace ''Simoni-Fè'', whose motto of Simoni Coat of Arms is ''Fides'', to their parents and confidence people, family Panteghini, Liberata Fostinelli et Battista Panteghini, and all their progeny ''ad vitam eternam'', to thank them for their

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. Àt the same time, their son Battista married Maria Bettoni, whose family owns another

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palazzo, the ''Casa Bettoni ''. BLASON COMTES BETTONI de VENISE

The coat of arms The house of Bettoni of

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, already allied to the family of Ostia Fè in 1852, is a quartered shield of silver and red with four roses neighborhoods one by the other, (two silver roses and two red roses. Lorenzo Bettoni was knighted in 1684 for funding 10 000

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the first, financing the war of

against the Turks of the

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. The ''Palazzo Simoni-Fè''

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of the inferior floors is left in 1988 to the city of

, and it becomes the municipal

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and a

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. Padre Antonio Panteghini is elected ''General Superieur'' of the ''

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'' from 1979 to 1991 in

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and cited as one of the most important personalities of the year 2015, of

. In 2000, Doctor Vanessa Panteghini, whose paternal grandmother is Maria Bettoni, issues the alert of the Vincennes pediatric cancer case. :fr:Affaire des cancers pédiatriques de Vincennes

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* The house of Bettoni *

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