Cornaro family
Ca' Corner, one of eight palaces along Venice's Grand Canal
commissioned by the Cornaro family.Ecstasy of Saint Theresa in the Cornaro family chapel in the church of Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome
.The House of Cornaro or Corner were a
Venetian dialect
, was adopted in the eighteenth century. The older standard Italian Cornaro is no longer common in Italian sources referring to earlier members of the family, but remains so in English.
History
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The family and name Cornaro are said to descend from the
gens Cornelia, a patrician family of Ancient Rome. The Cornari were among the twelve tribunal families of the Republic of Venice and provided founding members of the Great Council in 1172. In the 14th century, the family separated into two distinct branches, Cornaro of the Great House and Cornaro Piscopia.[1] The latter name derived from the 1363 grant of the fief of Piscopia in the Kingdom of Cyprus to Federico Cornaro.[2]
When
Sugar trade
The Cornaro Piscopias ran a large
serfs. Sugar was transformed in-house with a large copper boiler made in Venice that the family paid hefty sums to maintain and operate. They exported sugarloaves and powdered sugar to Europe. The Cornaros were often in conflict with their neighbors over the use and handling of water.[4]
Members
- Felicia Cornaro (died 1111), dogaressa of Venice
- Giovanni Cornaro (fl. 1238–1291), diplomat
- Andrea Cornaro(died 1323), Margrave of Bodonitsa
- Marco Cornaro (c.1286–1368), doge 1365–68
- Federico Cornaro (died 1382), merchant and politician, founder of the Piscopia plantation
- Pietro Cornaro (died in 1387 or 1388), Lord of Argos and Nauplia from 1377
- Marco Cornaro (1406–1479), trader, patrician, diplomat
- Luigi Cornaro (c.1464–1566), who wrote treatises on dieting
- Giorgio Cornaro (1452–1527), brother of Caterina Cornaro
- Caterina Cornaro(1454–1510), Queen of Cyprus from 1474 to 1489
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- Marco Cornaro (1482–1524), cardinal from 1522
- Andrea Cornaro (cardinal) (1511–1551), Italian Roman Catholic bishop of Brescia, and later cardinal
- Giorgio Cornaro (1524–1578), Italian Roman Catholic Bishop of Treviso
- Federico Cornaro (1531–1590), Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal-Priest of Santo Stefano al Monte Celio
- Luigi Cornaro (cardinal), Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Zadar
- Andrea Cornaro (historian) (1547–c.1616), Venetian aristocrat, historian and author
- Cretanpoet
- Marco Cornaro (1557–1625), Italian Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Padua
- Cardinal Federico Baldissera Bartolomeo Cornaro (1579–1653), Patriarch of Venice 1631–44
- Giovanni I Cornaro (1551–1629), doge from 1624
- Marco Antonio Cornaro (1583–1639), Italian Roman Catholic Bishop of Padua
- Francesco Corner(1585–1656), doge in 1656
- Elena Cornaro Piscopia (1646–1684), first woman to get a Doctor of Philosophy degree (from the University of Padua in 1678)
- Giovanni II Cornaro (1647–1722), doge from 1709
- Giorgio Cornaro (cardinal) (1658–1722), cardinal from 1697
- Laura Cornaro (d.1739), dogaressa of Venice, by marriage to the Doge Giovanni II Cornaro
- Giovanni Cornaro (1720–1789), cardinal from 1778
References
- ^ a b Cornaro, Luigi; Addison, Joseph; Bacon, Francis; Temple, William (1903). "Appendix: A Short History of the Cornaro Family; Some Account of Eminent Cornaros; A Eulogy upon Louis Cornaro; The Villas Erected by Louis Cornaro". The art of living long; a new and improved English version of the treatise by the celebrated Venetian centenarian, Louis Cornaro, with essays. Milwaukee: W. F. Butler. pp. 157–207. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
- ISBN 9781443884624. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
- ^ "ToposText".
- ^ Verlinden, Charles (1970). "The Transfer of Colonial Techniques from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic". The beginning of Modern Colonization. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. p. 19-21.