Morosina Morosini-Grimani (1545 - January 21, 1614) was a Venetian patrician. She was the

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from 1595 to 1605.

Life

Morosina Morosini-Grimani was the daughter of Andrea Morosini, a wealthy Venetian patrician. She married in 1560 to Marino Grimani. With her spouse's election as

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in 1595, her own

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dogaressa

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was conducted with enormous pomp and

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in May 1597. No other dogaressa would be crowned after her until Elisabetta Querini in 1694, who would be the last dogaressa to be crowned. The ceremony was conducted with the purpose of surpassing all previous seen in Venice, and celebrated with processions of gondolas, banquets for foreign princes and ambassadors and dignitaries of the church, and the dogaressa was given the

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by the Papal envoy. Dogaressa Morosina was described as ambitious, gracious and hospitable. She became the

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of the famous lace-making

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, and established a

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to promote and popularize the

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among the upper class women of Venice. Morosina survived her spouse and died at the age of seventy. She did not follow the tradition that the dowager dogaressa should enter a convent, but devoted herself to charitable and devout projects. She restored the Church of San Sebastiano from her own private fortune.

References

* Staley, Edgcumbe:
The dogaressas of Venice : The wives of the doges
', London : T. W. Laurie, 1910 {{DEFAULTSORT:Morosini-Grimani, Morosina Lace 1545 births 1614 deaths 16th-century Venetian people 17th-century Venetian people House of Grimani Dogaressas of Venice House of Morosini 16th-century Venetian women 17th-century Venetian women Italian patrons of the arts