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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48578	The city and republick of Venice in three parts / originally written in French by Monsieur de S. Desdier.	S. Desdier, Monsieur de.	1699 (1699)	Wing L2306; ESTC R34981	188,059	407

Gentleman of Terra firma to the Handicraftsman all were admitted who bid with ready Money Notwithstanding those Memorials that were upon this occasion presented to the Pregadi were justly worthy of some consideration Some of these Families maintain the dignity as it ought to be others have brought themselves into Inconveniencies and almost ruin'd to get to this Greatness Here follows some that are at present most considerable for their Riches and Alliances The Labbia's Gentlemen of Florence followed Merchandizing at Venice without any Derogation to their Quality according to the Privileges of the Florentine Nobility They make themselves to be Originally come from Avignion They are vastly Rich and have built a very Noble Palace at Venice where they have contracted the Alliances of the most powerful Houses The Videmans are Originally Germans Their Father was so Rich that he bought the Nobility made his Brother Cardinal and several considerable Purchases in the State of the Republick as likewise of several Baronys and Lordships in the Hereditary Provinces of the Emperor The common Opinion is that he got all he had out of the Quick-silver Mines he was concerned in but such as have more narrowly Examined from whence those mighty Treasures came do say that he inherited them of his Father who being Warehouse-Keeper in the German Warehouse at Venice and coming afterwards to be the Housekeeper in the time of the Plague that swept away most of the Richest Merchants of this Nation he then took the Advantage of the Opportunity made the most of their Goods and became Rich in a small time The Ottoboni a Family of a great Chancellor of the Republick are in consideration here upon the Account of the Cardinal of that Name and Brother to him who purchased the Nobility The Zanabis Merchants of Verona but Originally of Avignion are esteem'd to be worth above an Hundred Thousand Ducats per annum The Fini have very Considerable Riches he that purchas'd his Nobility made himself by the same means Procurator of St. Mark He was so Able a Lawyer that in all Debates he even brought the Senate to his Opinion and if he had Lived he would have stood fair to be Doge which had been what was never before known The Family of the Manins are Gentlemen of Trivoli who do in this come even with the Fini for their Chief is yet alive made himself by his Money Procurator of St. Mark which Evidently shew the Mighty Riches of these Families who have reserved very Considerable Revenues and yet purchased Two great Dignities at the most Excessive Rates and that bring them in nothing The Gambara Gentlemen of Broscia are consider'd and well Allied at Venice The Young Cornaro Son of the Procurator of that Name and Branch from which descended the last Queen of Cyprus is only a Gentleman of Venice by dint of Money his Father being oblig'd to purchase the Nobility for him and his Sisters because he had them by a Daughter of a Gondolier for Notwithstanding he Married her afterwards yet the Laws of the State do not esteem such issue to be Noble as shall be observed in the proper place From the same Marriage came Helen Cornaro who was regarded as a Prodigy at Venice for her great knowledge of Languages and her Intimacy with the Sciences she was moreover esteem'd to be a most admirable Example of Solid Vertue The Marquis Fonseca was a Rich Portugeese Merchant who lent very great Summs to the King of Spain during the late Revolutions of Naples and was afterwards recompenc'd with a Marquisat in that Kingdom He was a Banquier at Venice when he bought the Nobility his Admission was much opposed not only for his being too openly in the Interests of Spain but likewise because he could not produce the Copy of the Register of his Baptism but being Marquis de Fonseca Rich and a very Honest Man he pass'd at last he since Contracted the Alliances of the best Families in the Republick and continues to make the Remittances of such Summs as are sent from Spain to Germany and from Naples to Milan for the Service of that Crown This third order of Nobility are not as yet employed in the great Charges of the Republick for the Nobility of Ancient Extraction have in all occasions the preference to them but seeing the urgencies of the State do not afford them an opportunity of getting those great Summs of Money they usually acquir'd before the end of the last War those of merit in these Families will not be long before they aspire to the Dignities of State Of such as have been made Noble by their merits IF the Republick hath sullied in some manner the Body of Venetian Nobility by admitting into this Illustrious Society such improper Members as some of those are which Compose the third degree yet they have very much advanc'd that Dignity in Associating with them some Crown'd Heads a great many Sovereign Princes and several very Illustrious Families both of France and Italy One may almost say the Republick hath acquir'd as much Glory as they could desire that is by making several great Princes Citizens of Venice as likewise that they have engag'd into their Interests the most Powerful Houses recompencing some of them as were Subject to the Republick and that render'd them the most Important Services or who lying upon their Frontiers have enlarg'd the Limits of the State by the gifts they made them of the places they possest They are this sort of Nobility which I design to comprehend in the fourth order at the head whereof Marches the House of Valois in the Person of Henry the third King of France and Poland who was present at the Great Council where he was received by the Vnanimous consent of all the Voices The House of Bourbon hath done the Republick the same Honour Henry the great being pleas'd to give the Senat of Venice this mark of his particular Affection in acknowledgment that they were the first who declared in his Favour and that Supplied him with very considerable Summs in his pressing Necessities Notwithstanding the Honour this Great Prince shew'd to the Venetian Nobility yet there were some balls found in Opposition to his Admission Almost all the Houses of the Princes of Italy have been desirous of being Members of the Venetian Nobility Those of all the Nephews of the Popes from Innocent the VIIIth have been received out of a particular mark of esteem that the Republick hath been pleas'd to give the kindred of the Soveraign Pontife those of Jogeuse Richelieu Mazarin and all those that have arriv'd to great Eminences have courted and obtained this Honour either by Favour or the Summes they gave Notwithstanding that by particular Law the Children of the Nobility are esteem'd to be fallen from their Privileges when they are not inserted into the Golden Book in the Term prescribed by that Law yet this sort of Nobility are not Subject to that Rigour by Reason their Residence is