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Ancient and noble family, originally from Liguria. 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. In the bibliographic research of this family, various authors have made mention of it. GA Ascheri, in the work he undertook and performed "Historical news about families in hotels in Genoa, printed in Genoa by Faziola in 1846", is of Italian origin, passed to Genoa, between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. Few are the cities, which boast noble families that are as old as those in Liguria, as despite the events of the times it still has many families within it, which 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