Gonfalon 1. Gules; a ladder, argent.
2. Argent; a scourge, sable.
3. Azure; (una piazza bianca con
nicchi vermigli).
4. Gules; a dragon, vert.
B. Sesto of St. Peter Scheraggio.
1. Azure; a chariot, or.
2. Or; a bull, sable.
3. Argent; a lion rampant, sable.
4. (A lively piece, "pezza gagliarda")
Barry of (how many?) pieces,
argent and sable.
You may as well note at once of this kind of bearing, called 'gagliarda'
by Villani, that these groups of piles, pales, bends, and bars, were
called in English heraldry 'Restrial bearings,' "in respect of their
strength and solid substance, which is able to abide the stresse and
force of any triall they shall be put unto." [1] And also that, the
number of bars being uncertain, I assume the bearing to be 'barry,' that
is, having an even number of bars; had it been odd, as of seven bars, it
should have been blazoned, argent; three bars, sable; or, if so divided,
sable, three bars argent.
[Footnote 1: Guillim, sect. ii., chap. 3.]
This lively bearing was St. Pulinari's.