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The weapon adopted by the Grillenzoni family finds its raison d'etre from an ancient but false tradition that made it derive from the union of two individuals of the conspicuous and illustrious Roman families of the Orsini and the Vitelli. Another tradition which, due to its reliability, goes hand in hand with the previous one, is that which wants to derive the family from a Teutonic "Girlensohn" who came to Italy following Otto Emperor. The fact is that the Grillenzoni or Ghirlenzoni are ancient in Carpi, whence they branch out to Modena, Ferrara, at the end, to Correggio, to Mirandola. The family tree of the Grillenzoni family of Carpi certainly moves from an Antonio living in 1344. The Modena branch in the century. XVI, already numerous and powerful, perhaps more than individual energies of adhesions and kinships, which cut in half, took an active part in the city factions. He gave his country captains and brave men of arms, prelates, magistrates and jurisconsults, doctors, philosophers and distinguished writers. We quote for everyone: Giovanni di Niccolò doctor, philosopher and humanist, great friend of Castelvetro, founder and animator in Modena of that group of scholars, vulgarly called the Academy and famous throughout Italy, then dissolved and persecuted because the Academicians were inclined to the new lines of the Reformation and had crossed the boundaries of literary and scientific studies in their disquisitions, pushing themselves with their activity in the religious and dogmatic field; Bartolomeo, brother of the previous valiant jurisconsult, mayor in Ravenna, Parma, Mantua, Lucca, Auditore di Rota in Genoa and Florence; Leandro od Evandro, called the collateral governor of Romagna for Alfonso II d'Este; Bartolomeo di Leandro governor of Brescello, castle of the Modena fortress. The Grillenzoni soon belonged to the conservatory class of the city, and later a branch