Old family bones brought to Italy (6)
I believe the answer is:
medici
'old family' is the definition.
'medici' can be an answer for 'family' (I have seen 'Italian family' mean 'medici' so perhaps 'family' could also mean 'medici'). I'm not sure about the 'old' bit.
'bones brought to italy' is the wordplay.
'bones' becomes 'medic' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'brought to' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'italy' becomes 'i'.
'medic'+'i'='MEDICI'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for medici that I've seen before include "Prominent family of Florence" , "Ice mid the Italian dynasty" , "Name of leading family of renaissance Italy" , "Noble Florentine family" , "Italian family who ruled Florence in the 15th century" .)