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* The title of viscount is less common in Italy (" visconte "), though the noble Visconti family, once rulers of Milan, offers an outstanding example.

In Italy, a younger member of a conte ( count )' s family, assigned a fortified rocca on the outskirts of the territory, would be more likely to be " X, dei conti di Y " (" X, of the counts of Y ") than Viscount.