House of Moro

The House of Mòro is a patrician family of the Republic of Venice and one of the founding families of the city in 434.[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
Place of origin	Roman empire
Founded	Rialto, Venice: 434
Founder	Albino 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]

History

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]

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][8][9]

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][10][4]

Notable members

• Cristoforo Moro (1390-1471), 67th doge of Venice, elected in 1462;[3][11][2][1]
• Giovanni Moro, Venetian ambassador to the Holy See, was anointed by Pope Gregory XIV;[3][10][2][1]
• Pietro Moro was created cardinal by Pope Gregory XII;[3][10][2][1]
• Giovanni Moro patriarch of Grado in 1121;[3][10][2][1]
• Simeone Moro († 1292), bishop of Castello since 1291;[3][10][2][1]
• Giacomo Moro, politician during the war against Carrara (1370-1380);[3][10][2][1]
• Giovanni Moro (1406-1456), one of the first rettori of the Domini di Terraferma; Venetian ambassador to the House of Malatesta, the Duchy of Ferrara, Republic of Siena and Alfonso of Aragon's Kingdom of Naples.[3][10][2][1][12]
• Antonio Moro, rettore of Padua, Feltre, Bassano and Bologna;[3][10][2][1]
• Damiano Moro, provveditore of the Venetian army during the war against Ferrara (1482-1484);[3][10][2][1]
• Giovanni Moro, duke of Candia (modern Crete) (1538);[3][10][2][1]
• Giovanni Moro (1542-1592), senator; Venetian ambassador to France (1581) and Venetian bailo of Constantinople since 1587 after the Battle of Lepanto;[13][10][2][1][14]
• Gabriele Moro († 1650), philosopher.[3][10][2][1]
• Gerolamo Lino Moro (1903-1990), Italian politician, Senator and member of the Chamber of Deputies.[15]

Venetian palaces

• Palazzo Moro a San Barnaba or Moro Barbini in Dorsoduro sestriere;
• Palazzo Moro Lin on the Grand Canal, in San Marco sestriere;
• Palazzo Moro Marcello, in San Marco sestriere;
• Palazzo Moro in San Salvador, in San Marco sestriere;
• Palazzo Moro Lin, in San Polo sestriere.
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    Moro Bridge on the Rio de Ca' Moro
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    Moro Lin Palace on the Grand Canal
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    Moro-Lin Michiel Olivo Palace
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    Moro Palace in Saint Barnaba
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    Moro Marcello Palace
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    Palazzo Garzoni Moro on the Grand Canal

References

1. Giuseppe Tassini (2009). Curiosità veneziane, ovvero origini delle denominazioni stradali di Venezia. Vol. 1, A-M. 1. Venezia: Filippi. ISBN 978-88-6495-062-4. OCLC 955241425.
2. 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. "Mòro nell'Enciclopedia Treccani". www.treccani.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-12-20.
4. 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. 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. Zanotto, Francesco (1853). Il Palazzo ducale di Venezia, illustrato da Francesco Zanotto. Getty Research Institute. Venezia, G. Antonelli.
7. 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. 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.
9. 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.
10. Venezia, Conoscere. "Famiglia Moro | Conoscere Venezia" (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-12-20.
11. Venezia, Conoscere. "Famiglia Moro | Conoscere Venezia" (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-12-21.
12. "MORO, Giovanni in "Dizionario Biografico"". www.treccani.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-01-02.
13. "Baili". ambankara.esteri.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-12-21.
14. "MORO, Giovanni in "Dizionario Biografico"". www.treccani.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-01-02.
15. "ELENCO DELLE FAMIGLIE NOBILI DELLE VENEZIE". www.gasparieditore.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-01-27.