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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Conti - Nobili
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Illustrious and ancient family, originally from the Comacina Island on the Lario, where in the IX century he founded a hospital for the poor and pilgrims under the invocation of SM Maddalena, and of which one of the Giovio agnation was always elected rector from 1496 onwards. The Giovio go back to a Giacomo, from whom Gio. Battista, decurion in 1465, father of Elisabetta, decurione in 1465, father and of Elisabetta went married to Pietro Martire of the Torre di Rezzonico, in whose family he brought the surname of the Giovio and Luigi (dec. 1499), pure decurion. From the latter were born Paolo (1483-1552), bishop of Nocera, a famous historian, and Benedetto (1471-1544) elegant Latin writer of poems, called by Alciato "Varrone lombardo", a distinguished scholar who was made a knight by Charles V loved and count. He was the father of Cassandra (born 1538), poet, wife of Gerolamo Magnocavallo, ...
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BlazonGiovio
1. Coat of arms of family: Giovio
Language of the text: Italiano
Inquartato: nel primo e quarto d'azzurro, al castello di rosso fiancheggiato da due torrette e sormontato da una terza torre più elevata, fondato sopra un lago al naturale; nel secondo e terzo d'oro a tre torte di rosso, con la bordura composta di rosso e d'argento. Sul tutto d'oro all'aquila di nero coronata di oro. Cimiero: Un angelo alato d'azzurro, coronato d'oro, vestito di rosso, colle braccia tese verso due colonne d'argento a destra ed a sinistra poste in capriolo rovesciato, il tutto sormontato dal motto: Non Plus Ultra. Divisa: Fato Prudentiam Minor
Blasone della famiglia Giovio da Como. Fonte bibliografica: "Dizionario storico blasonico delle famiglie nobili e notabili italiane estinte e fiorenti" vol.I, compilato dal Comm. G.B. di Crollalanza, edito presso la direzione del giornale araldico, Pisa 1888.
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