Palazzo Civran Badoer Barozzi Canal Grande Venezia

Palazzo Barozzi Emo Treves de Bonfili Canal Grande Venezia

The House of Barozzi was an aristocratic Venetian family that belong to the

Venetian nobility The Venetian patriciate (, ) was one of the three social bodies into which the society of the Republic of Venice was divided, together with citizens and foreigners. was the Imperial, royal and noble ranks, noble title of the members of the Aris ...

. Members of the family became sailors, clerics and men of learning. They were lords of

Santorini Santorini (, ), officially Thira (, ) or Thera, is a Greek island in the southern Aegean Sea, about southeast from the mainland. It is the largest island of a small, circular archipelago formed by the Santorini caldera. It is the southern ...

and Thirassia, and held military

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s on the island of

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. Members of the family were involved in the

Tiepolo conspiracy The Tiepolo conspiracy or Tiepolo-Querini conspiracy was an attempt to overthrow the government of the Republic of Venice under Doge of Venice, Doge Pietro Gradenigo. Headed by the disaffected Venetian patriciate, patricians Bajamonte Tiepolo, , ...

against the

Doge of Venice The Doge of Venice ( ) – in Italian, was the doge or highest role of authority within the Republic of Venice (697–1797). The word derives from the Latin , meaning 'leader', and Venetian Italian dialect for 'duke', highest official of the ...

in 1310.

Notable members

* Pietro Barozzi, who in 1192 led a Venetian naval expedition against the

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* Andrea Barozzi, his brother, who sailed with the Venetian contingent led by the Doge

Enrico Dandolo Enrico Dandolo (Anglicised as Henry Dandolo, and Latinised as Henricus Dandulus; – May/June 1205) was the doge of Venice from 1192 until his death in 1205. He is remembered for his avowed piety, longevity, and shrewdness, and his role in the ...

in the

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* Benedetto, Marino and Pancrazio Barozzi, who obtained military

s in the Venetian colony of

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on the island of Crete * Angelo Barozzi (died 1238),

patriarch of Grado The Patriarchate of Grado, also known as the Patriarchate of New Aquileia, was an episcopal see and ecclesiastical province in northeastern Italy, centered in Grado, on the northern coasts of the Adriatic Sea. It was created as a result of an in ...

(now in

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) from 1207 until 1237 * Iacopo Barozzi (died ''circa'' 1245),

duke of Candia This is a list of rulers of the island of Crete throughout its history. Antiquity Crete was conquered for the Roman Republic by Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus in 69 BC and united with the Cyrenaica in the province of Creta et Cyrenaica unt ...

1244–1245, who – according to tradition – in the aftermath of the

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in 1204 conquered the islands of

and Thirassia; no historical document confirms the story, and the Barozzi family may not have reached the islands until the fourteenth century *

Andrea Barozzi Andrea Barozzi () was a Venetian nobleman. He served as official and military commander for the Venetian Republic. Life Andrea was the firstborn son of Iacopo Barozzi, a Venetian official who was duke of Candia . Beginning with Karl Hopf in the ...

(died after 1278), son of Iacopo,

bailo of Negroponte The ''bailo'' and captain of Negroponte was the representative of the Republic of Venice stationed at Chalcis (Negroponte) on the island of Euboea. The ''bailo'' played an important role as the mediator between, and ''de facto'' overlord of, the Tr ...

1258-59 and lord of Santorini from 1245, who led a fleet of forty-seven

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s in a failed attack on the city of Tyre, which at that time was allied with the

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Iacopo II Barozzi Iacopo, or Jacopo (II) Barozzi (died 1308), was a Republic of Venice, Venetian nobleman and the first lord of Santorini in the Cyclades. He also occupied several high-ranking colonial positions for the Venetian Republic. Life Iacopo Barozzi was th ...

(died 1308), son of Andrea, bailo of Negroponte 1295-97, duke of Candia 1301-03 and titular lord of Santorini, who reconquered the island, which had been lost to the Byzantines in about 1280, but came into conflict with the Duke

William I Sanudo William I Sanudo (or ''Guglielmo''; died ca. 1323) was the fourth Duke of the Archipelago from 1303 to his death. He was the son and successor of Marco II.Mihail-Dimitri Sturdza, Dictionnaire Historique et Généalogique des Grandes Familles de Gr ...

who also claimed the island *

Andrea II Barozzi Andrea II Barozzi (died 1334) was a Venetian nobleman and lord of Santorini in the Cyclades and Admiral of Romania. He succeeded his father, Iacopo II Barozzi, on the latter's death in 1308. His possession of Santorini and Therasia was confirmed ...

(died 1334), son of Iacopo and lord of Santorini from 1308 *

Francesco Barozzi Francesco Barozzi (9 August 1537 – 23 November 1604), in Latin Franciscus Barocius, was an Italian mathematician, astronomer and humanist. Life Barozzi was born on the island of Crete, at Candia (now Heraklion), at the time a Venetian pos ...

(died 1471)

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(1466–1471) Eubel, Konrad (1914). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi. Vol. II (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. p. 248. * Giovanni Barozzi (''circa'' 1420 – 1466),

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from 1465 * Pietro Barozzi (1441–1507), bishop of Belluno from 1471 and of

Padua Padua ( ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in Veneto, northern Italy, and the capital of the province of Padua. The city lies on the banks of the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice and southeast of Vicenza, and has a population of 20 ...

from 1487 * Elena Barozzi, famous beauty painted by

Titian Tiziano Vecellio (; 27 August 1576), Latinized as Titianus, hence known in English as Titian ( ), was an Italian Renaissance painter, the most important artist of Renaissance Venetian painting. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno. Ti ...

and

Vasari Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance painter, architect, art historian, and biographer who is best known for his work '' Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects'', considered the ide ...

, and mistress of

Lorenzino de' Medici Lorenzino de' Medici (22 March 1514 – 26 February 1548), also known as Lorenzaccio, was an Italian politician, writer, and dramatist, and a member of the Medici family. He became famous for assassinating his cousin, Alessandro de' Medici, Du ...

(1537–1604), cosmographer and mathematician, whose collection of ancient manuscripts is now the

Codex Baroccianus Baroccianus is an adjective applied to manuscripts indicating an origin in the ''Baroccianum'', a Venetian collection assembled by the humanist Francesco Barozzi (Barocius). A large part of that collection was sold after the death of Iacopo Ba ...

of the

Bodleian Library The Bodleian Library () is the main research library of the University of Oxford. Founded in 1602 by Sir Thomas Bodley, it is one of the oldest libraries in Europe. With over 13 million printed items, it is the second-largest library in ...

* Iacopo Barozzi (1562 – before 1617), his nephew, who catalogued and added to that collection.

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