The Querini family or Quirini was an old Venetian patrician family. They claimed an ancient Roman heritage, but their traceable history goes back to the 11th century. The family divided into many branches. [1]
The Querini family or Quirini was an old Venetian patrician family. They claimed an ancient Roman heritage, but their traceable history goes back to the 11th century. The family divided into many branches. [1]
The House of Foscari was an ancient Venetian patrician family, which reached its peak in the 14th–15th centuries, culminating in the dogeship of Francesco Foscari (1423–1457).
Paolo Casati was an Italian Jesuit mathematician. He belonged to the jesuit scientific school founded in the Provincia Veneta by Giuseppe Biancani, and represented later by Niccolò Cabeo, Niccolò Zucchi, Giovanni Battista Riccioli and Francesco Maria Grimaldi.
In textual and classical scholarship, the editio princeps of a work is the first printed edition of the work, that previously had existed only in manuscripts. These had to be copied by hand in order to circulate.
Giovanni Pellegrini was an Italian architect.
Giuseppe Maria Figatelli or Giuseppe Maria da Cento was an Italian mathematician and Capuchin friar.
Giovanni and GregorioDe Gregori were two Italian brothers from Forlì who worked as printers in Renaissance Venice. They are generally credited with the first attractive type in nonpareil size for a 1498 or 1501 edition of the divine offices.
Ottaviano Raggi (1592-1643) was a 17th-century Catholic cardinal. Before his appointment as Cardinal he rose in the ranks of civil and juridical administration of the Papal States and after he was one of the proponent of the Republic of Genoa into the College of Cardinals.
The House of Barozzi was an aristocratic Venetian family that belong to the Venetian nobility. Members of the family became sailors, clerics and men of learning. They were lords of Santorini and Thirassia, and held military fiefs on the island of Crete. Members of the family were involved in the conspiracy of Bajamonte Tiepolo against the Doge of Venice in 1310.
Giovanni Luca Chiavari was the 98th Doge of the Republic of Genoa.
Giovanni Lessi was an Italian jurist, economist, agronomist, and erudite scholar of classics who lived in Florence.
Giovanni Antonio Volpi (1686–1766) was an Italian editor, publisher and poet.
Alvise Michiel was an Italian clergyman and bishop for the Archdiocese of Split.
Giovanni Battista Eliano was a Jesuit priest and scholar of Oriental languages.
Vincenzo Querini was a Venetian patrician, diplomat and church reformer.
Marco Antonio Bonciari or Bonciario was an Italian Renaissance scholar and writer.
Giovanni Cinelli Calvoli was an Italian physician and bibliographer of the Seicento.
Alessio Simmaco Mazzocchi was an Italian priest, antiquary and philologist.
The piscatorial eclogue is a genre of poetry from Renaissance Italy. A variation on the pastoral, it substitutes fishermen at sea for shepherds in the fields. It originated in the 1490s, with the Neapolitan poet Jacopo Sannazaro's Eclogae piscatoriae.
Giovanni Moro was a Venetian patrician, merchant and politician, who served the Republic of Venice as administrator and ambassador.
Sixtus Riessinger, also called Xistus Reissinger or Rüssinger, was a German printer active in Italy.