 Giuseppe Lanza, Duke of Camastra, is known to have been the proponent of the reconstruction of Catania and Val di Noto after the earthquake of 1693.The years and the members pass of the family, when Ignatius Prince of Trabia, became courtly councilor of the emperor Charles VI of Habsburg, combining the position of captain of Palermo in 1717 and praetor in 1737.Giuseppe Lanza di Trabia (1750-1855), Sicilian archaeologist and collector, gentleman of the chamber and knight of the Order of San Gennaro, minister of ecclesiastical affairs, made an excellent and profitable marriage joining with Stefania Branciforte of the princes of Leonforte and princess of Butera