Heraldic vocabulary
Araldo: the depositary of heraldry, of the knowledge and history of armorial bearings art. The person who reads the coats of arms.
Avellana (avellan cross): cross made of four thin filberts or avellans in their shells, joined together through their rounded ends.
Bastione: fortification usually built at the angles of the fortress enclosure walls, with its main angle towards the country.
Blasone: it improperly replaces the word “coat of arms”. Actually, it’s heraldry which permits to understand the global meaning of a coat of arms.
Cartiglio (scroll): decorative pattern resembling a partially unrolled sheet of paper with an explanatory writing for the symbol to which it is related.
Cercine (pad): roll of interlaced belts placed on helmets to attenuate the blows. Later on, it became a helmet decoration and a heraldic badge.
Chimera: a fabled fire-breathing monster of the Greek mythology with the head of a lion, the body of a goat and the tail of a dragon.
Gherone (gyron): a triangular made by two division lines meeting at the fesse point.
Unicorno: chimerical animal that differs from a horse for its long, straight and sharp horn set in the middle of its forehead.