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INSIGNIA OF THE DUKE OF MILAN


A babe emerging from the mouth of a snake is the sign of your family.
Alexander the Great has coins like this.
He was the son of Jupiter and his mother was seduced by a snake.
Some think this is how snakes give birth.
Maybe it symbolizes how Athena sprang from the head of Jupiter.
 

 

Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, ed. and trans., Selected Writings of Christine de Pisan

 

Peggy Knapp, Time-Bound Words: Semantic and Social Economies from Chaucer's England to Shakespeare's