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Venetian nobility. Coat of arms of the Republic of Venice, featuring the Lion of Saint Mark. The Great Council in a voting session at the Doge's Palace, 1648. The Venetian patriciate (Italian: Patriziato veneziano, Venetian: Patrisiato venesian) was one of the three social bodies into which the society of the Republic of Venice was divided ...
Vincenzo Querini[a] (1478/1479 – 23 September 1514) was a Venetian patrician, diplomat and church reformer. An accomplished Renaissance humanist, he held a doctorate in philosophy and wrote poetry in Tuscan. He served as ambassador to Castile (1504–1506) and the Holy Roman Empire (1506–1507).
Nicolò Erizzo was born in Venice on 15 January 1722 as the firstborn son of Andrea Erizzo and Caterina Grimani. His father was a prominent Venetian statesman and diplomat, and in his youth Nicolò joined him in his sojourns in various European courts. Alongside a first-hand experience of politics and the power brokers of the time, Nicolò ...
Domenico Grimani: (1461–1523) son of Antonio, Cardinal and Patriarch of Aquileia, owner of the Grimani Breviary. Giovanni VI Grimani (1506–1593) nephew of Domenico, was an Italian bishop and Patriarch of Aquileia. Marino Grimani: (1517–1529) nephew of Domenico, bishop and Patriarch of Aquileia. Vincenzo Grimani: Cardinal and opera ...
Coat of arms of the Kingdom of Italy (House of Savoy). The Italian nobility (Italian: Nobiltà italiana) comprised individuals and their families of the Italian Peninsula, and the islands linked with it, recognized by the sovereigns of the Italian city-states since the Middle Ages, and by the kings of Italy after the unification of the region into a single state, the Kingdom of Italy.
Coat of arms of Cristoforo Moro, 67th Doge of the Republic of Venice. The Moro family was a patrician family of the Republic of Venice. [1][2] The family gave birth to ambassadors, politicians, generals and procurators of Saint Mark, bishops, patriarchs and a doge. [3][1] The emblem of House of Moro carved in stone, kept at the Correr Museum in ...
Biography. Belonging to an ancient Venetian patrician family named Badoer, she was daughter of merchant Vitale Badoèr. In 1300 she married Marco Polo, the Venetian explorer, son of Niccolò Polo. From the union three daughters are born: Fantina, Belella and Moreta Polo.
The Council of Ten (Italian: Consiglio dei Dieci; Venetian: Consejo de i Diexe), or simply the Ten, was from 1310 to 1797 one of the major governing bodies of the Republic of Venice. Elections took place annually and the Council of Ten had the power to impose punishments upon patricians. The Council of Ten had a broad jurisdictional mandate ...