Racaniello

The Racaniello or Racani family was a prominent family of Umbrian origin which provided a number of administrators in Todi.

Coat of arms of the Racaniello family

One branch of the family was established in Apulia in 1412 in the service of bishop Dondei of Bari.

In 1405 another part of the family came under the protection of the Albizzi. On their behalf Ludovico Racaniello, a captain of Montecchio, today a frazione of Castiglion Fiorentino, acted as Procurator of Arezzo in 1419.

Family coat of arms and motto

The coat of arms of the House of Racaniello is composed of concentric circles in yellow and scorched earth; the family motto is Dominus exquisitus artis saeviter quis revocas malum memet (I possess a refined art, that to hurt cruelly whoever does me evil).

People named Racaniello

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gollark: Communism is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors.
gollark: But it seems quite obvious that not giving people an incentive to do more things is bad, and that central control also runs into horrible problems.
gollark: I mean, people obviously quite like the idea of central economic planning for various fairly good reasons (not that communism means that now to a lot of people!).
gollark: It does not sound good "on paper" if you think about it for more than 5 seconds.

References

  • Adar, Ghimel (1972). Storie di mercenari e di capitani di ventura (in Italian). Ginevra: Edizioni Ferni.


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