Foscarini (Venice)

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Esteban Trento

Foscarini (Venice)

Legg inn av Esteban Trento » 09 sep 2004 18:22:06

According to the chronicles, the Foscarini family came to Venice from
Altino or Padua in 867. Its old surname was Cobeschini but in 1297,
while it entered the Consiglio, changed it to Foscarini.
The Palazzo Foscarini in "i Carmini" hosted Henry III of Francia while
he was in Venice to admired in 1574 the so called "guerra dei
bastoni", which took part in the confronting bridge. Marsilio dalla
Croce, in his "Istoria della pubblica et famosa entrata in Vinegia del
serenissimo Enrico III, re di Francia e di Polonia", attests that the
king visited with his court the house of Jacomo Foscarini, ambassador.
This Giacomo Foscarini, who hosted in 1574 king Henry III, was
"generale di mare" and, after his death in 1602, he was buried in an
splendid monument in the church of the Carmini.
Antonio F., which often visited the house of the English countess Anna
d'Arundel, was accused of mantaining secret talks with foreign
diplomats and sent to prison in 1622, but after the trial found not
guilty.
The Foscarinis of Carmini died out with procurator Pietro in 1745. His
widow, Elisabetta Corner, offered in 1749 in her Palazzo dei Carmini a
splendid party with dance, music and songs, in honour of the family of
Modena.
Marco F. was in charge of the Marciana Library, and in 1762 elected
"doge". In his Palazzo dei Carmini, which he inherited from another
line of the family, he kept a very rich treasure of Venetian
chronicles. He was the author of a "Storia della Letteratura
Veneziana".

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