Contrada della
Selva

Let's go back to what is back, and go to Vallepiatta where the Contrada so called starting from the Door of Saint Ansano to the Inquisited Nuns of Saint Sebastiano, ends by the road above, and below, at the beginning of the Diacceto road, in front of the old House Accarigi, now Savini, but facing the Pieve of Saint John the Baptist, occupies the houses only on the left hand. It is called Vallepiatta, as Benvoglienti affirms, almost lata, which is ending slowly, which is for Insegna, as can still be seen in a facade of a house: white field with six red roses, three above, and three below, with blue list, with three golden lilies.

Almost next to the aforementioned Vallepiatta is that of Saint John, which starting from the Accarigi houses, and on the street of Saint Desiderio on the left, arrives up to the Sacristy of the Cathedral, where on both sides along the road of the Fusari, it ends at the steep alley of Saint Jerome, behind the Opera houses, now the Archbishop's Palace; use for arms white field with red list with dentils, with four lilies in it.

To be so close, alliance passes between these two Contrade, and under one sign they appear on the occasion of the shows. Still retaining the fame, that where these two Contrade are located were already wild, and inaccessible places, therefore they have repeatedly represented a tree with hanging the tools necessary for hunting, and enjoy the privilege that when you make bull hunts in Piazza Grande , or other ferocious beasts, to be the first to appear with their banner of Selvalta, and they lead by car a rhino, as they did the year 1546, who appeared with 80 men all dressed as hunters. The rhinoceros, as Pliny recounts in book 8 of its natures, is an animal, which has a horn on its nose, and is very enemy to the elephants, who having to fight with them points the horn to a stone, and in the battle he tries to hurt in the belly; it is as long as the elephant; but it has shorter legs, is of a color similar to boxwood, and the first time, which was seen in Rome, was in the games of Pompey the Great.

The Contrada of Porta Salaja, or Solaja extends from Costarella to the Accarigi house along the road called Galgaria, and then turning towards Diacceto, it takes the road to Saint Pellegrino, where the four Consuls of the Wool Guild reside, and then for the Codennacci alley enters the Uffiziali road, and going back over the Costarella, it ends at the alley of Mattasalaja, called Chiasso of Bargello, it acts as a sign for a red field with a white door with two arches, with a white rooster above.