Young Writers Society

Firstly, sorry if I've put this in the wrong forum; I'm still new, don't hurt me!

But, recently I've started writing again and all but one of my characters are Italian so, of course, they have Italian surnames. However, the capitalisation of some of said surnames is giving me a bit of bother. I have two surnames written in the run of the name "di Bruno" and "de Bardi" but I'm completely stumped as to how to write these names when they are at the beginning of a sentence (I call them by their surnames due to their jobs). Do I capitalise the Ds or leave them lower case?

Thanks!

I'd follow proper grammar rules, just so people realize it actually is the start of a sentence. Capitalization at the start of sentences is one of those things that's so expected, breaking the naming convention is acceptable in my mind.

Alright, thanks, Rosey Unicorn!

I ended up renaming di Bruno a little while back so that his D was a capital but I'll switch it back now and just capitalise it anyway.

Thanks again!