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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Nobili
Nobles in:Italia
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Ancient and noble Venetian family called Catani, Catano or Catania with conspicuous settlements in Rovigo. 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: Silver feathered, each feather loaded with a black armelin fly; with the head of red. Various homonymous families spread to different regions of Italy. The bibliographic information that is handed down to us can be traced back to this lineage of which we have taken note. Ancient and noble family of Naples. Another family raised their weapons. Party; golden, with three black tassels; and black with the golden griffin; with the head of the same cross on the party and loaded with a black eagle. It was the custom of the oldest families, who after the fall of the Roman Empire, in that flood of the Barbarians, having their surnames, as well as their studies, and other beautiful things lost and left only with simple names, draw their surnames again , and their family by paternal proper names, and of the major ones. ...
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BlazonCataneo
1. Coat of arms of family: Cataneo
Language of the text: Italiano
Piumato d'argento, ciascuna piuma caricata di una mosca d'armellino di nero; col capo di rosso.
Catani, Cataneo o Catania di Rovigo.
Citato in "Dizionario storico blasonico delle famiglie nobili e notabili italiane estinte e fiorenti" vol.I, pag. 262, compilato dal Comm. G.B. di Crollalanza, edito presso la direzione del giornale araldico, Pisa 1888.
Partito; d'oro, a tre nappe di nero; e di nero al grifo d'oro; col capo dello stesso attraversante sul partito e caricato di un'aquila di nero.
Cataneo di Napoli.
Citato in "Dizionario storico blasonico delle famiglie nobili e notabili italiane estinte e fiorenti" vol.I, pag. 261, compilato dal Comm. G.B. di Crollalanza, edito presso la direzione del giornale araldico, Pisa 1888.
D'azzurro alla colomba col ramoscello d'olivo nel becco, al naturale, ferma sulla vetta di un monte di tre cime di verde, uscente dalla punta dello scudo.
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