Talk:Biscione
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Child or man, eating or disgorging?
[edit]Usually considered to be eating a child... AnonMoos (talk) 03:55, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
heralds don't pun ...
[edit]Woodward's Heraldry (if memory serves) suggests that it is an eel (anguilla), canting for a lordship of (something like) Anguivaria. —Tamfang (talk) 17:58, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
Dietrich?
[edit]Dietrich von Bern links here as this is part of his Legend. Why no mention here?2601:806:4301:C100:C84:2660:4EA2:BD28 (talk) 04:08, 8 August 2017 (UTC)
Biscione: swallowing child/man OR birthing child/man ?
[edit]Apparently Museo Storico Alfa Romeo (Alfa Romeo Historical Museum) says the Alfa Romeo logo depicts a human emerging from the snake and not the other way around. This is supposed to represent the process of man reinventing himself . The following article discusses this and several other interesting tidbits of knowledge about the logo's history. I do not read Italian so I cannot verify the sources linked to in this article but hopefully this can help the editors of this article who are fluent in Italian.