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The shield samnitic, also called Modern French shield, appears in the 16th c. is a shield of rectangular shape whose lower corners are rounded as arcs of a circle with a radius of half module. According to some authors it is normally high 8 modules wide and 7, as the tournament shield, while others report the height 9 of modules for measurement of width 7. The center of the lower side is provided with a tip formed by two arcs of a circle of radius also of the middle module. This shield is also frequently used in heraldry Spanish along with the shield Spanish: some authors, such as the Marquis of Avilés, reported the proportion of 6 height modules to 5 meters wide as standard Spanish. The Samnite shield has also been adopted as the official support civic heraldry and Italian military and in this case its official size is 9 × 7.