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Template:Dubrovnik Noble HouseThe House of Giorgi[1][2] (in the sources also de Giorgi, Georgio, Zorzi, Çorçi or, during late Renaissance also Latinized as de Georgiis; later in Croatian also Žurgović, more recently Đurđević)[3] was one of the most important noble families of the Republic of Ragusa.

History

According to an ancient and most reliable tradition, the House of Giorgi came to Ragusa from Rome, where a family was enrolled Giorgi ab antiquo among the official nobility. According to Konstantin Jireček they could also have Kotoran ancestry: is in fact quoted a source Jacobus George de Catarino (late thirteenth century), also called Jacobus Georgii comitis Triphonii[4], where comites could mean the title of officials of a province or a county of the Roman Empire. In 1370 the House of Giorgi officially entered in the Golden Book of the Republic of Genoa. Damiano de Giorgi served Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus, receiving the award of large estates and the right to insert the royal crow in his arms.

The Ragusan branches

Various coats-of-arms of the family. The last one is the branch of House of Bona-Giorgi.

Over the centuries, the Giorgi were divided into several branches, merging with other noble families of Ragusa. A branch of the family joined his name and arms to those of the House of Bona, creating a new branch as "Bona-Giorgi".[5]

Throughout the history of the Republic of Ragusa, the House of Giorgi were always among the wealthiest and most influential families, serving in the 14th and 15h centuries the 6.50% of all major public offices.[6] Between the 1440 and 1640 Giorgi has 109 members of the Great Council, representing 4.95% of total [7]. In these two hundred years, they also count 203 senators (6.21%), 163 Rettori della Repubblica (6.84%)[8], 173 representatives in the Minor Council (6.33%) and 41 Guardian of Justice (4.99%).
The Almanac de Gotha[9] enumerates them among the eleven oldest families of native Patrician Sovereign Republic still residing in the city in mid-nineteenth century.

The main branch of the family was extinct in Ragusa in 1897, the counts Bona-Giorgi in 1902. Some branches of the Giorgi survived in northern Italy instead.

Notables people (in chronological order)

One of the palaces of the family Giorgi, in Gruz Gravosa), Dubrovnik
  • Donato Giorgi (? - 1492) - Dominican, was a teacher of theology in Padua between 1458 and 1462, then vicar general of the Dominican province of Dalmatia.
  • Stefano Giorgi (1579 - 1632) - poet and writer, had a very turbulent life, and was also involved in a famous plot to overthrow the government of the Republic.
  • Bernardo Giorgi (? - 1687) - Jesuit and canon of the Cathedral of Ragusa, was poet and historian. He left an archive of documents entitled Monumenta varies Cathedralis Ragusinae and several compositions mostly unpublished.
  • Ignazio Giorgi (1675 - 1737) - The son of Bernardo Giorgi, a civil whose nobility was recognized only after the earthquake of 1667, was one of the most important scholar and historian of the Republic of Ragusa

Notes

  1. ^ Francesco Maria Appendini, Notizie istorico-critiche sulle antichità storia e letteratura de' Ragusei, Dalle stampe di Antonio Martecchini, Ragusa 1803
  2. ^ Konstantin Jireček, L’eredità di Roma nelle città della Dalmazia durante il medioevo, vol. I, AMSD, Roma 1984, p. 54
  3. ^ Konstantin Jireček, Op. Cit., vol. I, AMSD, Roma 1984, p. 57
  4. ^ Konstantin Jireček, Op. Cit., vol. I, AMSD, Roma 1984, p. 58
  5. ^ Konstantin Jireček, Op. Cit., III, AMSD XI, Rome 1986, p. 71
  6. ^ Zdenko Zlatar, "Huius... est omnis Rei Publicae potestas": Dubrovnik's patrician houses and their partecipation in power (1440-1640), in Dubrovnik Annals, 6/2002, p. 51.
  7. ^ Zdenko Zlatar, Op. Cit., p. 54
  8. ^ Zdenko Zlatar, Op. Cit., p. 60
  9. ^ Edition 1865, p. 320

References

  • Francesco Maria Appendini, Notizie istorico-critiche sulle antichità storia e letteratura de' Ragusei, Dalle stampe di Antonio Martecchini, Ragusa 1803
  • Renzo de 'Vidovic, Albo d'Oro delle famiglie nobili patrizie e illustri nel Regno di Dalmazia, Cultural Scientific Foundation Rustia Traine, Trieste 2004
  • Simeon Gliubich,Biographical dictionary of illustrious Dalmatian men, wien-Zadar 1836
  • Giorgio Gozzi,The free and sovereign Republic of Ragusa 634-1814, Volpe Editore, Rome 1981
  • Robin Harris, Storia e vita di Ragusa - Dubrovnik, la piccola Repubblica adriatica, Santi Quaranta, Treviso 2008
  • Konstantin Jireček, The Legacy of Rome in the cities of Dalmatia in the Middle Ages, 3 vols., AMSD, Rome 1984-1986


See also

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