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Your welcome! And thank you; I read your 'about' page and it is good to see that there are those like yourself who are standing firm and resisting the Liberal attacks on your great Culture and Heritage.

Here are a few more Lombardic related items:

Lombard Knight from 'I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata', Verdi Opera, based on the epic poem of the same name by Tommaso Grossi. Translation: "The Lombards on the First Crusade".

First performance: Milan Italy, at La Scala, 11th of February, 1843

Note: The surviving Lombard Knights of the First Crusade returned to settle in and founded the town of Bagolino in the Province of Brescia, Italy (Region of Lombardy).

LOMBARDI COAT OF ARMS

Lombardi Motto: 'Impavidum Ferient Ruinae.' Trans: "The ruin will strike him unafraid"

"Horace opens one of his odes with a depiction of a Stoic hero who will submit to the ruin of the universe around him: "Si fractus illabatur orbis, / impavidum ferient ruinae" — "Should the whole frame of Nature round him break, / In ruin and confusion hurled, / He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, / And stand secure amidst a falling world." (Odes 3.3.7-8, translated by Joseph Addison.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_justitia_ruat_caelum

"Quintus Horatius Flaccus, (Venusia, December 8, 65 BC – Rome, November 27, 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus."

PETRI LOMBARDI (PETER THE LOMBARD)

Book printed in 1578. 'Sententiarum', by Petri Lombardi (Peter Lombard) 1100-1160. Venice. Books IIII (Four books in one volume). 528 pgs.

PETER THE LOMBARD:

"Peter Lombard (c. 1100 – July 20, 1160 in Paris) was a scholastic theologian and bishop of the 12th century."

SOURCE: http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Peter-the-Lombard