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Ancient and very noble Venetian family, with residence in Verona and Venice, of clear and ancestral virtue, which spread at the dawn of the 20th century, even in Switzerland, where it still blooms. The progenitor of this noble prosapia is found in a Pietro, a military leader, who died in 1306. For this reason, the family was considered noble and confirmed as such by Emperor Charles IV, with a diploma given in Lucca on March 8, 1369. , and by the Emperor Sigismund, with a diploma given in Piacenza on March 16, 1432, in favor of Francesco and Teodoro and their descendants. Francesco Sigismondo in 1690 was appointed mayor of Trento during the vacation of that principality. The family under the Venetian Republic held distinct military, civil and ecclesiastical positions, highlighting among the many Ignazio, lieutenant colonel of engineers, who before the fall of the Republic covered the position of major of the province of Verona, destined to deal with the commanders of the belligerent powers , for which the Venetian Senate was made to mint a gold medal in memory of his useful services. Marino, Saverio, Giovanni Francesco and Guido, of Ignazio, had the confirmation of the nobility with SRA 20 November 1825. The emperor of Austria Ferdinando I, with diploma 28 April 1843, elevated the aforementioned brothers to the position of baron of the AI, with their descendants of both sexes. In the official list she is registered with the title of noble and baroness of the IA Giovanna, born in 1862, of Ignazio and Caterina Pezzi. Finally, from a chromatic analysis of the coat of arms, we can obtain some important information on the virtues associated with this surname. Being the color of the sky, blue symbolizes all the highest virtues and, among the spiritual ones, devotion,