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On September 26, 1826 King Carlo Felice granted two diplomas of knighthood and nobility to the brothers Efisio Luigi, Antonio, Giovanni and Giuseppe Siotto Pintor, in view and reward of the merits of their father, already passed away, Giovanni Maria Siotto Pintor. The branch descending from Senator Giovanni, as mentioned in the previous biographical note, was registered as a noble in the registers of the Heraldic Council by Ministerial Decree on November 22, 1877. The branch descending from the aforementioned Don Giuseppe, of Giovanni Maria, was recognized titles of knight (m.), nobleman (mf.), and don (mf.) with Ministerial Decree of 20 July 1901 and Regie Lettere Patenti of 24 November 1901. The founder of this branch was Don Giuseppe himself, an illustrious professor of pandas and of Latin eloquence in the R. University of Cagliari, learned jurisconsult and member of Parliament during the I, II, II and IV legislature. When, in the session of the Chamber of Deputies of 22 February 1849, Gioberti, who had resigned as President of the Council of Ministers the previous day, was violently attacked by his opponents and attempted to put him on charges, he only rose to defend him. openly and he avoided a reviled agenda. Gioberti himself recalls the episode in the Renewal, speaking of the generous soul of Giuseppe Siotto Pintor, who died in Cagliari in 1855. From his marriage to Margherita Melis his son Don Luigi was born in Cagliari on March 1835, who, entered at a young age in the judiciary, he was asserted, for his special qualities of erudition, integrity and legal knowledge, to the rank of first president of the Court of Appeal; he was elected Member of Parliament in the 21st legislature. He was also a member of the Superior Council of mines and the Sardinian Heraldry