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Why is the family name of the House of Medici written as 'de' Medici' not 'dei Medici'?

Why do we use the contracted form here?
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Was there a time when some 1st person plurals ended with “-am”?

I was reading an old document put on the web and saw “siam” where I expected “siamo.” I was about to report a typo when I realized that at least a third of the verbs were that way—“dobbiam” and “...
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