Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The families were furthermore divided into several other "categories", including Ducal Houses (Case ducali, whose members had become Doges), Newest Houses (Case nuovissime) raised to the patriciate in 1381, non-Venetian patrician families, and "Houses made for money" (Case fatte per soldo, usually wealthy landowning or bourgeoisie families who ...
This category contains the families who were part of the Venetian nobility or patriciate, the social class that ruled the Republic of Venice. Subcategories This category has the following 33 subcategories, out of 33 total.
Venetian noble families (33 C, 18 P) Burial sites of Italian noble families (11 C, 1 P) * Julio-Claudian dynasty (9 C, 88 P) Sicilian noble families (5 C, 12 P) A.
The Barbaro family (/'bar.ba.ro/) was a patrician family of Venice. They were wealthy and influential and owned large estates in the Veneto above Treviso . [ 1 ] : 112 Various members were noted as church leaders, diplomats, patrons of the arts, military commanders, philosophers, scholars, and scientists.
Cosimo de' Medici, Florentine banker, who established his family, the Medici dynasty, as effective rulers of Florence Jakob Fugger, of the Fugger family Bindo Altoviti, famous patron of the arts, papal banker and grandnephew of Pope Innocent VIII Johann Hinrich Gossler (1738–90), of the Berenberg-Gossler family Philippine Welser, a member of the patrician Welser banking family, and the wife ...
The Libro d'Oro (The Golden Book), originally published between 1315 and 1797, is the formal directory of nobles in the Republic of Venice (including the Ionian Islands).It has been resurrected as the Libro d'Oro della Nobiltà Italiana (The Golden Book of Italian Nobility), a privately published directory of the nobility of Italy.
Determining the family's exact wealth has been deemed implausible; [58] conspiracy theories claiming the family is worth trillions of dollars have not been proven. [59] [60] The Bardi family of Florence (14th century) The Medici family, as owners of the Medici Bank, the richest family in 15th-century Europe. [61]
The families were furthermore divided into several other "categories", including Ducal houses (which gave Doges), Newest houses (Case nuovissime), Non-Venetian patricians, and "Houses made for money" (usually very wealthy landowning or bourgeoise families enriched through trade).