Balbi
A patrician family originally from Rome that did not have the good fortune to elect any doge, but can count primary ecclesiastical personalities among its descendants. The members of the family stood out for their...
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Correr
According to the text of F. Schroder, one of the most ancient Venetian families coming from Rome in the middle of the eighth century, and having come from Torcello, then moved to Rialto during the doge of Angelo...
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Labia
Noble family probably originating from Catalonia (Girona); in 1400 he moved to France, to Avignon (some attribute the origin of the family to this city), then passed to Italy, first in Florence and then in Venice....
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Michiel
Among the most ancient noble families of Venice, she fled from Rome due to the invasion of the Goths, taking refuge in the lagoons in the fifth century, with many riches. A Michiel participated in the election of...
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Mocenigo
Ancient and illustrious family of uncertain origin, according to tradition they originated in Milan even if for someone coming from Aquileia, in both cases they would have settled in Venice from Musestre, in the...
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Rezzonico
Family from the village of Rezzonico, now the municipality of San Siro, in the province of Como and located on the lake of the same name. The genealogical branch separated around 1550 from the noble Della Torre di...
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Romanin-Jacur
The Jacur family, a wealthy Paduan Jewish banker family, revolutionized the town planning of the city of Salzano and introduced an industrial activity of considerable importance for the population: the spinning mill...
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Zane
The importance of this family was widely described by the Paduan Giacomo Zabarella in his writing "The magnificent, that is, the masked virtue where all the sublime grandeurs of the Serenissima Republic of Venice and...
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