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Ancient and illustrious family, originally from Sardinia. From Doctor Francesco Pais, who married Maria Richeri, Don Michele was born, who, on October 24, 1766, married Giovanna Angela De Antona in Sassari and had the knighted son Vincenzo, who, born in Sassari on July 17, 1784, married, in the same city on May 9, 1818, Anna Giuseppa Leoni. From their marriage the knights Michele were born in Sassari, in 1819, who on 20 February 1855 married Carlotta Tranchero in Centallo (province of Cuneo). From them was born on 27 July 1856 in Borgo San Dalmazzo, Ettore, the clear and meritorious professor of the R. University of Rome, the eminent senator of the Kingdom, the illustrious effective member of the best known Italian and foreign Academies, the distinguished man , which, with its brilliant and erudite works, increases the number and value of the masters of historical studies in Italy. And for him and for his persevering investigations, our country has proudly seen new lights of glory shining on its remote antiquity and rising ever higher the beauty and grandeur of our many times millennial civilization. With Ministerial Decree dated 18 April 1925, the titles of knight (m.) And nobleman (mf.) Were recognized to him and his children and descendants as males, with the treatment of women and men, and the use of the coat of arms . The family is therefore registered in the Golden Book of Italian Nobility and in the Official Italian Noble List with the titles of knight (m.), Noble (mf.), And with the treatment of don (m.) And woman (f. ), in the person of Ettore, Michele, Vincenzo, n. in Borgo San Dalmazzo 27 July 1856. Children: Antonio, n. June 4, 1880 in Sassari, sp. with Velentina Rossi in Rome, 16 November 1920; Beatrice, n. November 12,