That is what is carved on this family crest.
Can someone tell us which Venetian family had this coat of arms?
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There’s a similar coat-of-arms on the south-east corner of the Rialto Bridge, because the bridge was built during the dogery? dogeship? – while Pasquale Cicogna was doge.
Yvonne’s stork can be found at Dorsoduro 22, Calle del Squero.
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The Doggon-ship? (Living in the Dodge Palace) I’ll find that coat-of-arms near the Rialto, Bert. The Palazzo Cicogna, is not near #22, it seems:
“Palazzo Ariani, noto anche come Palazzo Ariani Minotto Cicogna (in veneziano, Palazzo Arian) è un palazzo di Venezia, situato nel sestiere di Dorsoduro, quasi di fronte alla chiesa dell’Angelo Raffaele e poco distante da San Sebastiano.
Il vicino Ponte del Soccorso lo collega a Ca’ Zenobio degli Armeni.”
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I will light a candle to the Venetian wind gods to send this rain your way.
For me, being from Seattle it is really only a light drizzle but it sounds like you will take whatever you can get.
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Wish it would rain here, so damn hot and humid and muggy. Tomorrow is 40 degrees celcius/ 104 fahrenheit! Yippeeee, can hardly wait 😦
I have been using this as my background “music” whilst on the computer.
http://www.rainymood.com/ Sounds cooling at least!
I can only hope there will be rain soon – it’s so dry here they’re encouraging people to pee in the pool!!
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Poor old Brissie, from floods to drought. That mood music is perfect, but we need the real thing.
I could see (on my stats page) the searches you were doing to uncover the mystery of the stemma! 🙂
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And this has opened a very interesting email conversation for me.
Grazie mille.
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Google does interesting translations.
Just beginning to rain gently in my part of Castello.
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http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicogna_%28famiglia%29
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Molto interessante, Laura
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Stemma della famiglia veneziana CICOGNA
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Grazie molto, Laura
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OK, the bird is a stork (cicogna in Italian), which could be the family name: Cicogna.
And, someone from Venice has just confirmed this. Grazie, Laura. 🙂
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Well, b*gger me, I must have looked up every Venetian family that ever existed lol!!! I looked up stork, lion, knights helmet (which, apparently, when looking to the left indicates nobility). Thank you Laura for putting me out of my Venetian Coat of Arms/ Family Crest misery! 🙂
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If he comes by I’ll ask my landlord. Or maybe I should email this to him??
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Someone out there will know, Michelle. I hear it’s raining today (just for a change).
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I’m emailing him just for the fun of it. I’m just up and haven’t looked out yet. Going to the window….nope, not raining at the moment. Acqua Alta predicted for 105 cm at noon so want to get to Rialto Mercato for my clementines before then…maybe get some boots…or maybe not.
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The Spero family?
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Melissa, I get to ask the questions around here! 🙂
I have no idea who owned that crest, but I like your funny guess.
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Hee Hee, sorry, yes I guess you do 🙂 You have no idea how much I have searched the internet in this quest!
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Could we please have a clue?
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