<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stemma_visconteo" class="mw-redirect" title="Stemma visconteo">Coat of arms of the House of Visconti</a>, on the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Arcivescovado_a_Milano" class="mw-redirect" title="Arcivescovado a Milano">Arch-bishops' palace</a> in <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Piazza_Duomo_a_Milano&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Piazza Duomo a Milano (page does not exist)">Piazza Duomo</a>, in <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Milan" class="mw-redirect" title="Milan">Milan</a>, Italy. The coat of arms bears the initials (IO.&lt;HANNES&gt;) of the name of archbishop <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Giovanni_Visconti_(archbishop)" title="Category:Giovanni Visconti (archbishop)">Giovanni Visconti</a> [1342-1354]. In this images is evident the fact that the heraldic animal of the House of Visconti is a <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Basilisk" class="mw-redirect" title="Basilisk">basilisk</a> (a sort of drake) rather than a snake. Picture by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:G.dallorto" title="User:G.dallorto">Giovanni Dall'Orto</a>, January 15 2007.
<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:G.dallorto" title="User:G.dallorto">G.dallorto</a>
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<span class="int-own-work" lang="en">Own work</span>