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Until the mid-nineteenth century, the family had the only surname of Riva, which originally appears to have been Dalla Ripa, and originates from Scandiano, where other families of this surname live. From a genealogy, campilated in 1857 by Giuseppe Vecchi, assigned to the Library of Reggio, and reported by Prospero Fantuzzi, we have this news. Pirro lived in Reggio in the fifteenth century. He married Isabella Balugola, nobleman of Carpi and Modena, in 1440. He held offices in the Savoy Court. Innocezo, from Pirro, obtained in 1463 the serious citizenship of Reggio. He was a businessman, and lived in Scandiano, general agent of the assets of Count Giovanni Matteo Bojardo, Luca (or Lucio or Luccio), of Pirro, he was known as a Latinist. Feltrino, di Angelo, Innocenzo, di Pirro, obtained from Hercules II on 19 December 1536 to be registered in the Golden Book of Nobility for himself and his descendants, while continuing the family to use in Scandinano, and always related to the family of that country, such as Bartolotti, Maestri, Boccoloni dei Barti, Covi, Terzani, Zanotti, Mattacoda, Lombardini, Belloli. Innocenzo, from Feltrino, from Angelo, married woman Orsina Parisetti from Reggio. His son Feltrino, renowned jurisconsult, had the reconfirmation of the Este nobility on 21 September 1557 by Duke Ercole II. He was supreme judge in Venice with the title of vicar, Angelo, of Innocenzo, married Eleonora Capari of Reggio; then, widowed, he became a priest. Alexander, of Feltrino, of Innocenzo, living in 1611, was also jurisconsult and provost of the famous Basilica of S. Prospero of Reggio. Grisanto, of the Servite fathers of Reggio with the name of Father Angelo, in 1644 he was prior in the convent of Novellara. Lodovico, of Hercules, of Lodovico was renowned goldsmith and silversmith, and together with Giovnni Magnavacchi he manufactured the artistic silver lamps of the Temple of the Madonna della Ghiara in Reggio. He married Ippolita Montanari, and had 16 children. Among them: Gioconda and Caterina, nuns in S. Raffaele of Reggio with the names of woman Maddalena Fedele the first, and Sister Ermenegilda the second: Giovan Nicola, regular canon, ...
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BlazonRiva Dei Conti Sanseverino
1. Coat of arms of family: Riva dei Conti Sanseverino
Language of the text: Italiano
Inquartato: nel primo di rosso a tre fascie d'oro; nel secondo interzato in fascia; primo d'oro; secondo d'argento; terzo di rosso a due stelle poste in fascia dell'uno nell'altro; sul tutto una colonna di nero, base e capitello d'oro, cimata da un'aquila coronata di nero; nel terzo d'argento all'albero accollato da un serpente a due giri e sinistrato da un cane sedente, il tutto al naturale, col capo convesso d'azzurro, caricato nel lato destro di una mezzaluna calante d'argento; nel quarto d'azzurro alla fascia convessa d'argento, caricata di 5 scaglioni diminuiti d'oro, posti nel senso della pezza, e accompagnata da tre gigli d'oro, due in capo e uno in punta.
Blasone della famiglia Riva dei Conti San Severino, fonte: "Enciclopedia Storico-Nobiliare Italiana di V. Spreti" vol. V p.737 - 738.
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