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Language of the text: Italiano
Nobility: Nobili
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The first memory of this family in Genoa dates back to 1180. It was illustrated by a long series of captains, advisers, governors, and ambassadors. Nicolò Levanto settled in Lecce in 1631 and bought the fiefdoms of Galugnano, Specchiarasa and S. Elena. In 1758 it was with royal dispatch aggregated to the Lecce nobility. Other branch. Ancient and noble Campania family with residence in the city of Naples. Passed for justice in the Constantinian Order, as fourth of another family, and recognized noble by the Royal Commission of titles in 1849. It was the custom of the oldest families, which after the fall of the Roman Empire, in that flood of the Barbarians, having the their surnames, as well as their studies, and other beautiful things lost and left only with simple names, to draw again their surnames, and their lineage from paternal proper names, and of the major ones. ...
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BlazonLevanto
1. Coat of arms of family: Levanto
Language of the text: Italiano
Partito di nero e di rosso, al palo formato da cinque rombi d'oro appuntati, attraversante.
Blasone della famiglia Levanto nobile in Genova e Lecce. 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.
D'azzurro, alla quercia nudrita sulla pianura erbosa, il tutto al naturale, e un liocorno d'argento passante sulla pianura, attraversante sul tronco.
Blasone della famiglia Levanto nobile e in Genova e Levanto o Levante nobile in Castelbuono. Fonti bibliografiche: "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; "Enciclopedia Storico-Nobiliare Italiana di V. SPRETI" Vol. IV pag. 107.
Blasone della famiglia Levanto nobile in Genova. 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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