The Marchese Adriano Colucci-Vespucci, member of the Order of the Crown of Thorns and President of the Italian Collegio Araldico (Heraldic College). A Doctor of Jurisprudence and an authority on chivalric and heraldic matters, he was a member of Parliament and adviser on heraldry to to H.M. the King of Italy. Editor of “La Nobilta della Stirpe”, he included the history of the Order of the Crown of Thorns in that journal.