To the left:  Coat of arms of the glorious Orsini family Dr. Reina carved several years ago using a thick slab of tuff (40x30x12 cm) from the wonderful city of Pitigliano (Tuscany, one of the capitals of this family).

The wavy band in the center was an allusion to the eel of the Anguillara family ("anguilla" in Italian means "eel"). Of all the great baronial families of the Italian Middle Ages, perhaps the Orsini heraldry is the one that fascinated me most since I was a child, because of their bear ("Orsini" means "little bears") which, sculpted in life size, held the rose of their coat of arms in various of the castles and monuments erected by these lords of the Roman and Neapolitan countryside (in the Middle Ages they could ride from Naples to the Adriatic Sea while remaining in their lands).

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