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ROYAL COAT OF ARMS IN THE CITY LIBRARY IN PIAZZA ARMERINA ENNA

Royal coat of arms of 1512 in the city library of Piazza Armerina, Enna in Sicily

the two Spanish monarchs, Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile, as opposed to those Portuguese, believed in intuition of the Genoese Navigator Christopher Columbus and then they financed in 1492 the enterprise to reach India crossing the ocean to the West.

However, a few years earlier (1478), had introduced in their reign even the Inquisition (a Plaza in 1512) to convert Muslims and Jews to Christianity, by hook or by crook. While there were, began to punish supporters of theories contrary to those Catholic (heresy) ended up pursuing homosexuals and witches.

Under the "flag" you hid the main objective: to hit political opponents and confiscate the assets of those sentenced, to replenish the coffers of the Crown always dry the huge expenses of the Court and the military. In this regard it is useful to recall that with the arrival in Sicily of the Castilian monarchy (so named because the Aragonese King, though, at the time of marriage had moved his residence from Castile), the ancient nobility in crisis was replaced by non-nobles titled, Curia, physicians, Apothecaries and g willing to pay a fee to enroll in the book of Mastra noble, present in all Royal City.

A Plaza with this procedure became nobles so many families whose political and economic power, influenced decisively on social life in later centuries. The original site where were placed the arms could not be the Jesuit because this was built a century later (1605) and then, if it doesn't come from other site outside the walls, was to be affixed or on one of the doors (I have identified 7) of State town or on that of the Aragonese castle, built in 1392 by another aragonese King (Martin I the younger) and home of Carlos appointed by the authority.

There would be one last chance if we consider the year engraved on the coat of arms, 1512, year of the introduction of the Inquisition in our city. May have been exposed on the building that was to house the Commissariat of the Court where they gathered the Dominican Commissioner, master Notaro, the receptor and the twenty employees or family members, provided however, you do not know the location. If the Commissioner was a Dominican, perhaps in their convent, Seminary today? N.B. In the former Jesuit choir room, which houses the Mostra del Libro Antico, there is another Royal coat of arms.
The arrow shows where is the coat of arms on the porch of the municipal library.