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Ancient and noble family, originally from Lazio. The commendator GB of Crollalanza reports the blazon of this family in the volumes of his historical blazon dictionary of the noble and notable Italian families. Weapon of the family: D'azzurro, with a gold band, loaded with three stars of eight rays of red, and accompanied on the head by a comet of the second, and on the tip by a silver dog holding three ears of corn in its mouth gold. This family, moreover, to say the least of Amayden, was certainly included among those collected in the Golden Book of the Capitol. From the documented bibliography on the Vatican manuscripts, the relatively small number of memoirs concerning the Roman families can be seen, if the suspicious sources of Ceccarelli, Fanusio, Metallino, whose fables were partly accepted by Iacovacci, are neglected. Noting that there is no Roman nobleman, but an imposing volume entitled "families ascribed to the golden book of the Capitol" is found in the Secret Archive of the Holy See. In fact, the book was lost due to the malevolent action of time, but, according to the list given to us by Benedict XIV in his Urbem Roman constitution of January 1746, Pius IX, on May 2, 1853, ordered the renewal of the Golden Book , made for care of a capitoline heraldic congregation. The list of families ascribed to the Golden Book kept in the Vatican Archive is very extensive because it also embraces patrician families that have been extinct for centuries. The family had recognized nobility between 1600 and 1700 year in which Teodoro Amayden carried out his research and composed "An overview of all the nobility of the ancient and modern families of Rome ... and foreign families. Vatican Fund n. 7957, fol. 58 ".