Citations:vorant

English citations of vorant

• 1920, Herman Joseph Heuser, American Ecclesiastical Review, page 185:

  It reproduces the crowned " Humilitas " Humilitas " together with the serpent vorant of the Visconti and the mors de cheval of the Somaglia connexion , both of which families were then represented among the Milanese nobility .

• 1886, The Genealogist, page 231:

  The well known arms of the Visconti , and afterwards of the Duchy of Milan ( the serpent vorant a child ) , did not " come from the Holy Land in the days of the Crusades , " but , as we learn from the tomb of Giovanni Galeazzo in the […]

• 1885, Society of Antiquaries of London, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London, page 42:

  Subject , a scrolled cartouche- shaped shield , bearing the Visconti arms ( a serpent vorant an infant ) ; ensigned with a mitre , labelled . Legend , - • • CAROLVS VICECOMES EPS VINTIMILIENSIS . The matrix has a baluster - shaped […]

• 1901, The Monthly Review, page 128:

  ... to Cardinal Ascanio Sforza , the son of Francesco Sforza , Duke of Milan , and a near relative of Micheletto , in the church of Santa Maria del Popolo , at Rome , bears 1 and 4 , grand quarters , the serpent vorant a child , of the […]

• 1999, Raymond De Roover, The Rise and Decline of the Medici Bank, 1397-1494, Beard Books, →ISBN, page 263:

  ... arms in which the eagle of Sforza is quartered with the serpent vorant an infant of the Visconti dukes.51 The courtyard and some of the rooms were decorated with frescoes by Vincenzo Foppa , a painter of no mean repute in his day .