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Language of the text: Italiano
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Ancient Ligurian family, of clear and ancestral virtue, spread over the centuries in various regions of Italy. According to some heraldic reconstructions, the family is a collateral branch of the noble Piedmontese family Viretti or Viretto. The change in surname would therefore be attributable to phenomena of manuscript and personal data variation. In any case, the Girettos were admitted to the local Ligurian nobility for military and civil merit, prior to the tenth-sixth century. In addition, the family, in the unfolding of decades, has always managed to produce a series of men who have made his name famous, in public employment, in the liberal and ecclesiastical professions and in military service. Among these, without taking anything away from the value of the omitted, count: Pietro, Ligurian landowner, flourishing in 1502; P. Antonio, Capuchin, flourishing in 1532; Federico, soldier, distinguished for courage and honor, under the banners of the admiral of ...
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BlazonGiretto
1. Coat of arms of family: Giretto
Language of the text: Italiano
Partito d'argento e d'azzurro; alla torre di rosso accostata da due delfini addossati d'oro e sormontata da una stella (6) del medesimo; la torre e la stella attraversanti sulla partizione.
Giretto o Giretti.
Fonte: Archivio Storico di Heraldrys Institute of Rome.
D'azzurro, a sette rombi d'argento, accollati in fascia, accompagnati in capo da tre stelle, ed in punta da tre rose, le une e le altre d'oro, ordinate in fascia. Cimiero: Un rosaio al naturale.
Viretti del Piemonte.
Fonte: "Dizionario storico blasonico delle famiglie nobili e notabili italiane estinte e fiorenti" vol.III p. 100, compilato dal Comm. G.B. di Crollalanza, edito presso la direzione del giornale araldico, Pisa 1888. Note. Si trovano anche le forme cognominali Viretto, Giretti e Giretto.
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