Giustiniani
The House of Giustiniani was a prominent Italian family which originally belonged to Venice, but also established itself in Genoa, and at various times had representatives in Naples, Canary Islands, Corsica and in the islands of the Archipelago,[1] where they had been the last Genoese rulers of the Aegean island of Chios, which had been a family possession for two centuries until 1566. The family claimed descent from Byzantine emperor Justinian I.[2]
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In Venice
In the Venetian line the following are most worthy of mention:
- Lorenzo Giustiniani (1381–1455), the Laurentius Justinianus, Saint, who was formerly in the General Roman Calendar.[1]
- Graevius.[3]
- Pietro Giustiniani, also a senator, lived in the 16th century, and wrote on Historia rerum Venetarum in continuation of that of Bernardo. He was also the author of chronicles De gestis Petri Mocenigi and De bello Venetorum cum Carolo VIII. The latter has been reprinted in the Scriptores rerum Italicarum, vol. xxi.[3]
- Marcantonio Giustinian (1619-1688), 107th Doge of Venice, from January 26, 1684 until his death. Son of Pietro Giustinian.
The Venetian branches of the Giustiniani family are extinct. The family name and arms have been assumed by Baron Girolamo de Massa (1946) and his sons, Sebastiano, Andrea, Nicolò, Pio, Giorgio and Lorenzo, and their descendants, by testamentary disposition of the mother, Elisabetta Giustiniani (Giulio Giustiniani of St. Barnabas's daughter, sister of Maria Giustiniani married Vettor Giusti del Giardino and of Sebastiano Giustiniani, both without descendants).[3]
In Genoa
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Of the Genoese branch of the family the most prominent members were the following:
- Giovanni Giustiniani (died 1453), a Genoese condottiero, who personally financed and led 700 men to the defense of Constantinople against the final Ottoman siege of 1453. Gravely wounded in the hand and chest during the fall of the city, he died a few days later on the island of Chios.
- Biblical commentaries (no longer extant), which are said to have been characterized by great erudition.[3]
- Agostino Giustiniani (1470–1536), Catholic bishop.[3]
- Paolo Giustiniani (1476-1528) was trained as a lawyer then chose to become a St. Romuald. The monks who followed him were organized into the Company of Hermits of St. Romuald, which was eventually accepted as an authentic expression of the order by the monks based at the original motherhouse. Finally, in 1523, the full order voted to recognize the followers of Guistiniani as a separate congregation within the tradition of the order. They took the title of Monte Corona, which was established as their own motherhouse.
- Cardinal by Pope Innocent X.
Others
The following are also noteworthy:
- Ambrogio Spinola, 1st Marquis of the Balbases, where he lost an arm, and, from the artificial substitute which he wore, came to be known by the sobriquet Bras de Fer. He also defended Crete against the Turks; and subsequently was killed in a reconnaissance in Friuli. He left in Italian a personal narrative of the war in Flanders, which has been repeatedly published in a Latin translation (Bellum Belgicum, Antwerp, 1609).[3]
- Giovanni Giustiniani (1513–1556), born in Candia (Heraklion, Crete), translator of Terence's Andria and Eunuchus, of Cicero's In Verrem, and of Virgil's Aeneid, viii.[3]
- Geronimo Giustiniani, a Genoese, flourished during the latter half of the 16th century. He translated the Alcestis of Euripides and three of the plays of Sophocles; and wrote two original tragedies, Jephte and Christo in Passione.[3]
- Berlin museums.[3]
- Marco Giustiniani, Multiple people
Notable properties
- Palazzo Giustinian
- Palazzo Giustiniani Businello
- Palazzo Giustinian Lolin
- Palazzo Giustinian Pesaro
- Palazzo Giustinian Recanati
Notes
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Giustiniani". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 54–55.
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