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Ancient and noble family of Genoa. 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. Right weapon: Purple, with silver band. Few are the cities, which boast noble families that are as old as those in Genoa, since despite the events of the times it still has many families within it that prove their genealogy from father to son through the notarial deeds from the mid-twelfth century until these days, that is, from an era that serves as a barrier to almost all families in Europe. But if we lack the deeds prior to those of Giovanni Scriba of the year 1150, and of Lanfranco Lotaro of 1180, in order to increase more degrees of nobility of this family, the same acts, however, give us clear evidence of a much earlier antiquity, finding many of them so numerous and divided into several branches, so that it is clearly seen that to reassemble their primitive jambs it would be necessary to go up several generations, and to penetrate not only in the eleventh century, but to advance far beyond the one thousand. This is also a proof that in Genoa, as in Venice, the use of surnames began to be introduced much earlier than in other cities of Italy. Many are the families that certainly had jambs in the XII century; others no less ancient have it in the thirteenth century, because there are earlier memories, but the residence in a foreign country, and above all the fires, especially the one caused by the bombs of 1684, having destroyed many ancient protocols, took away the evidence, and thereby dissolved the ring of their generations; others finally came from abroad, their ancestors must be traced