Barbaro family
The Barbaro family is an aristocratic Venetian family which included the humanists Daniele Barbaro and Marcantonio Barbaro, who were among the patrons of the architect Andrea Palladio and the painter Paolo Veronese.[1]
The Barbaro family is documented as holding high office in the Republic of Venice as early as the ninth century, and the family was originally organized into three primary branches.[2] In the 15th century, the family's San Vidal branch expanded upon the large Gothic Palazzo Barbaro on Venice's Grand Canal by also building a second Baroque palace right next to it to house their ball room.[3] The San Vidal branch would also build a country retreat at Maser - the famous Villa Barbaro designed by Palladio. By the end of the 18th century, the male line of the San Vidal branch died out with only the family's two other branches surviving today. [4]
The family's branch known as "dell'Albergo" or "Albergo" resided in Venice at the Palazzi Barbaro-Dario in the San Vio (San Vito) neighborhood on the Grand Canal, and the Albergo's Palazzo Dario was renovated in 1479 by the architect Pietro Lombardo, [5]. The Albergo branch remained at their palace until the 19th century before retreating to their baronial estate at Catanzaro. [6]
The Albergo branch's primary income was based on silk production, and they organized their line around a corporation of nobility known as an "Albergo" or "Alberghi" similar to that of the House of Grimaldi [7] The Albergo branch's highest achievement was to be elevated to a cadet line of royalty as The Princely Counts of the Grand Princes of Transylvania to the House of Habsburg-Lorraine after their crucial involvement in the Battle of Temsvar on August 9, 1849, and the branch's greatest influence can be found in the name of the famous Sala dell'Albergo at the Chiesa di San Rocco di Venezia [8]
The third branch of the Barbaro family, known as "San Giorgio", ceased being Venetian nobility after 1778 when they accepted the Maltese title of Marchesi di San Giorgio, and after a member of the San Giorgio branch married a German countess, the San Giorgio branch also became the holders of the title Counts Von Zimmermann[9]
The Barbaro family is greatly recognized as an intellectual family who helped influence the course of Western Civilization through their scholarship in the areas of art, science, and civics. Barbaro family members acted as deans and professors of the University of Padua and as Patriarchs of Aquileia.[10] The family is immortalized on the facade of the church of Santa Maria Zobenigo in Venice which was built for them to originally serve as a family crypt.[11]
Notable members
- Donato Barbaro about 1259: Venetian Admiral
- Francesco Barbaro (1390-1454): Grand Prince for the knighthood of Order of the Dragon
- Giosafat Barbaro (1413-1494): Asian Ambassador
- Ermolao Barbaro (1454—1493/1495): Philosopher
- Marco Barbaro (1511–1570): Geneologist
- Daniele Barbaro (1513-70): Scholar, Cardinal and co-owner of Villa Barbaro
- Marcantonio Barbaro (1518–1595): French Ambassador and co-owner of Villa Barbaro
- Dr. Anthony Cremona Barbaro (1955-): Current Head of the San Giorgio Branch, 9th Marquis of St. George
- Vitus Sebastian Barbaro (1973-): Current Head of the Albergo Branch, Patrician of Venice, Baron dell'Albergo, 5th Princely Count of the Grand Princes of Transylvania
Notes
- ^ Hobson, pp.89 – 97
- ^ Hobson. p,91.
- ^ Ca'Barbaro
- ^ Hobson, p.93.
- ^ www.rosswarner.com
- ^ Palazzo Barbaro-Dario, Venice.JC-R.Net, Nauplion.Net/Ca Dario-Palazzo:HTML
- ^ Edwards, Anne; The Grimaldis of Monaco, William Morrow, 1992
- ^ Astris Zenkert, Tintoretto in der Scuola di San Rocco, Ensemble und Wirkung Ernst wasmuth Verlag, Tubingen 2003 ISBN 3-8030-1918-4
- ^ Giles Ash, S; The Nobility of Malta, Publishers Enterprises Group (PEG) Ltd., 1988
- ^ The Patriarchate of Aquileia; Giga-Catholic Information
- ^ Alfredo Tafuri, trans.Jessica Levine, 1989, MIT Press, ISBN 0262700549
References
- Hobson, Anthony. (Villa Barbaro - pages 89 – 97) "Great Houses of Europe". 1961.(reprinted 1970) George Weidenfeld and Nicolson Ltd. London. ISBN 0-600-33843-6.
- Ca'Barbaro (Italian) retrieved 10 July 2007
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