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).
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.
Giuseppe Maria Figatelli or Giuseppe Maria da Cento was an Italian mathematician and Capuchin friar.
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.
John of Naples, also known as Giovanni Regina, was a Dominican friar and prominent Thomist theologian and philosopher in the early 14th century.
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.
Scipione Capece was an Italian jurist, humanist and poet, professor of Civil Law and president of the Accademia Pontaniana.
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.
Lauro Quirini (1420–1474/1481) was a Cretan-born Venetian patrician and humanist scholar. He studied arts and law at the University of Padua, and was skilled in both Latin and Ancient Greek. He returned to Crete in 1452, where his father and Lauro himself held a concession for the mining and export of alum. He remained in Crete for the remainder of his life, which precluded his active participation in Venetian politics, unlike most of his contemporary humanist colleagues. He is notable for the series of letters exhorting the Pope and Venice to take action against the advancing Ottoman Empire, especially after the Fall of Constantinople in 1453.
Benintendi Ravegnani was a Venetian public secretary and diplomat, whose career culminated with the highest non-patrician office, that of grand chancellor, which he held from 1352 to his death in 1365. Prior to that, he was appointed to the post of vice grand chancellor in 1349. A humanist and friend of Petrarch, he was also a historian, continuing Andrea Dandolo's history of Venice.