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One day, while waiting for a tram at the Piazza Castello station in Milan, he was inspired by the red cross in the Milan Flag and the Coat of Arms of the noble House of Visconti, which featured a biscione (grass snake) with a man in its jaws, symbolizing "Visconti's enemies that the snake [was] always ready to destroy."
iToot Stream Ayman Sarhan 2010
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One day, while waiting for a tram at the Piazza Castello station in Milan, he was inspired by the red cross in the Milan Flag and the Coat of Arms of the noble House of Visconti, which featured a biscione (grass snake) with a man in its jaws, symbolizing "Visconti's enemies that the snake [was] always ready to destroy."
iToot Stream Ayman Sarhan 2010
reallifepixel commented on the word biscione
It is an image of a serpent eating a child.
http://vigilantcitizen.com/?p=1160
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biscione
June 22, 2009