The Moro family was a patrician family of the Republic of Venice.[1][2]

House of Moro
Ca' de' Mòro
Noble house
Coat of arms of the family
Country Republic of Venice
Italy
Albania
Croatia
Cyprus
Greece
Montenegro
Slovenia
Russia
Turkey
Ukraine
 Austria-Hungary
Austria
Hungary
Czech Republic
Slovakia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Serbia
Poland
Place of originRoman empire
FounderAlbino Moro (Venetian language); Albinus Maurus (Latin)
Estate(s)Venetian palaces
Coat of arms of Cristoforo Moro, 67th Doge of the Republic of Venice

The family gave birth to ambassadors, politicians, generals and procurators of Saint Mark, bishops, patriarchs and a doge.[3][1]

The emblem of House of Moro carved in stone, kept at the Correr Museum in Saint Mark's Square

History

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Native of the Roman Mauretania, the family settled in Rome in the 1st century, before spreading to several other European cities within the Empire.[4][5][6][7] One of these branches settled in Patavium, and flourished there.[7][6][5][4] Indeed, the family played an important role in the administration of its government: in 421 or 434, some consuls gathered to the Venetian lagoon to lay the foundations of Venice. Among them, consul Albinus Maurus (Venetian: Albino Mòro) from Patavium co-founded, on the Realtine islands, the first settlements of the new city, from which this Venetian House began.[4][5][6][7] Indeed, during the first years of their settlement in the Venetian lagoon, the administrators of the new city remained subject to the administration of the cities from which they came.[8] Thus, Padua sent annual magistrates to Rialto with the title of consuls; the names of some of these officials have been handed down to us; they are: Albino Moro, Antonio Calvo, Alberto Faliero, Tommaso Candiano, Hugo Foscolo, Cesare Dandolo, who founded the patrician families of the Moros, the Calvis, the Candianis, the Falieris, families which still existed at the time of the fall of the republic in Venice, Bergamo, Brescia and, outside the Venetian Republic, in Genoa and Turin.[9] In the library of the Camaldolese convent of San Michele, near Venice, there is a decree issued by the Senate of Padua in 421, which orders the construction of a town at Rialto and the concentration on this point of the inhabitants who had previously been scattered in various surrounding islands.[10]

The family is attested with certainty from 982, and its membership within the Maggior Consiglio persisted even after the lockout of 1297.[3][2][1][11][12]

The House of Moro exerted an increasingly preeminent role in the government of Venice and, from 1388, the date of Francesco Moro's return from the island of Negroponte, the family had a long-lasting influence in the public life of Venetian Republic.[2][4] It reached the peak of the republican institutions with the election of Cristoforo Moro (1462-1471) as the 67th doge, nine years after the Fall of Constantinople by Mehmed II, and amidst the Ottoman-Venetian wars.[3][13][4]

Following the fall of the Venetian Republic in 1797, the family is still counted among the nobility of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy.[12]

Notable members

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The family today

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The Venetian surname is attested to belong to a noble Italian family in Venice, Bergamo, Brescia, within the historical territory of the Republic of Venice.[19]

Venetian palaces

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Tassini, Giuseppe (2009). Curiosità veneziane, ovvero origini delle denominazioni stradali di Venezia. Vol. 1, A-M. Vol. 1. Venezia: Filippi. ISBN 978-88-6495-062-4. OCLC 955241425.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Dizionario storico-portatile di tutte le venete patrizie famiglie: così di quelle, che rimaser'al serrar del Maggior Consiglio, come di tutte le altre, che a questo furono aggregate (in Italian). Bettinelli. 1780.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "Mòro nell'Enciclopedia Treccani". www.treccani.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-12-20.
  4. ^ a b c d e MOTI, Petrus Antonius (1690). Aquila augusta biceps. Tusco-Troo-Latio-Albano-Romano-Osco-Otho-Otho-Bona ... diademate decorata, studio Petri Antonii Moti. [An account of the family of Pope Alexander VIII., i.e. the Ottoboni.] (in Latin). Typis Petri Mariæ Frambotti.
  5. ^ a b c Zabarella, Giacomo (1673). Aula heroum siue Fasti Romanorum ab vrbe condita vsque ad ann. Dom. 1673. In quibus omnes Romanae historiae continentur ... Libri quatuor Ferdinando Mariae S.R.I. electori archidapiphero duci vtriusque Bauariae, & Palatinatus superioris ... Studio, et opere comitis Iacobi Zabarellae ... edita, et dicata (in Latin). typis Petri Mariae Frambotti.
  6. ^ a b c Zanotto, Francesco (1853). Il Palazzo ducale di Venezia, illustrato da Francesco Zanotto. Getty Research Institute. Venezia, G. Antonelli.
  7. ^ a b c Longo, Lorenzo (1644). Laurentii Longi ... Soteria hoc est pro salute carmina ad aedem salutis Venetiis nuper extractam contexta: Cum notis historicis ... Ingoni Taurelli atque iconibus Petri Vecchii ...
  8. ^ Mattioli, Pietro Andrea; Dioscorides Pedanius; Liberale, Giorgio; Valgrisi, Vincenzo (1568). I discorsi di M. Pietro Andrea Matthioli ... nelli sei libri di Pedacio Dioscoride Anazarbeo della materia medicinale : hora di nuouo dal suo istesso autore ricorretti, & in più di mille luoghi aumentati : con le figure grandi tutte di nuouo risatte, & tirate dalle naturali & uiue piante, & animali, & in numero molto maggiore che le altre per auanti stampate : con due tauole copiosissime spettanti l'una à ciò, che in tutta l'opera si contiene, & l'altra alla cura di tutte le infirmità del corpo humano ... In Venetia: Appresso Vincenzo ValgrisI. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.120952.
  9. ^ "Investissement dans les télécommunications publiques, par ligne d'accès, en millions d'USD". doi:10.1787/716382166357. Retrieved 2021-05-24. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  10. ^ "Elenco delle Famiglie e dei Generi". Webbia. 8 (1): 121. January 1951. doi:10.1080/00837792.1951.10669592. ISSN 0083-7792.
  11. ^ Rusius, Laurentius; Barbieri, Luigi; Delprato, Pietro (1867). La mascalcia di Lorenzo Rusio volgarizzamento del secolo 14., messo per la prima volta in luce da Pietro Delprato, aggiuntovi il testo latino per cura di Luigi Barbieri. Bologna: Presso G. Romagnoli. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.23320.
  12. ^ a b Betta, Edoardo de; Martinati, Pietropaolo. (1855). Catalogo dei molluschi terrestri e fluviatili viventi nelle Provincie venete di Edoardo de Betta e Pietropaolo Martinati. Veronoa: Dalla Tipografia di G. Antonelli a spese degli autori. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.13113.
  13. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Venezia, Conoscere. "Famiglia Moro | Conoscere Venezia" (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-12-20.
  14. ^ Venezia, Conoscere. "Famiglia Moro | Conoscere Venezia" (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-12-21.
  15. ^ "MORO, Giovanni in "Dizionario Biografico"". www.treccani.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-01-02.
  16. ^ "Baili". ambankara.esteri.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-12-21.
  17. ^ "MORO, Giovanni in "Dizionario Biografico"". www.treccani.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-01-02.
  18. ^ "ELENCO DELLE FAMIGLIE NOBILI DELLE VENEZIE". www.gasparieditore.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-01-27.
  19. ^ admin_wp2. "ELENCO DEI TITOLATI ITALIANI - BLASONARIO GENERALE". Accademia Araldica Nobiliare Italiana (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-03-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)