Negroponte sounds like a Spanish or Italian name. I think the name would mean black point in Italian, but am not sure
Hi Wolf
I believe he is a Greek-American but an Italian type name
(Venetian) The combination has to do with all the folks
who occupied the neighborhood in Byzantium.
Ah, that makes sense. In truth, the Mediterranean peoples have been mixing since pre-history. Then, when the barbarians sacked Rome, they also mixed with the local population. My father's father was born in Italy and was Italian through and through. But he had red hair, blue eyes, and a red moustache, which means Northern Europeans were somewhere in his ancestry.