Proper noun
Mattei (plural Matteis)
A surname from Italian [in turn originating as a patronymic] from Matteo (“Matthew”).
His insight into orchestral resources is generally ascribed not to the strict compositional rules that he learned from Mattei, but to knowledge gained independently while scoring the quartets and symphonies of Haydn and Mozart. Source: Internet
Zuccari returned to Rome in 1548, and began his career as a fresco painter, by executing a series of scenes in monochrome from the life of Marcus Furius Camillus on the front of the palace of a wealthy Roman named Jacopo Mattei. Source: Internet
His mother, the marquise Adelaide Antici Mattei, was a cold and authoritarian woman, obsessed over rebuilding the family's financial fortunes, which had been destroyed by Monaldo's gambling addiction. Source: Internet
The following year he was admitted to the counterpoint class of Padre Stanislao Mattei (1750–1825). Source: Internet