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Lords Of Padua
The Lords of Padua ruled the city from 1308 until 1405. The commune of Padua became a hereditary one-man lordship () with the election of Jacopo I da Carrara as ''capitano del popolo'' in 1308. His descendants, the Carraresi, ruled the city and its vicinity, with short interruptions, until they were defeated by the Republic of Venice in the War of Padua, which resulted in the annexation of the city by Venice. See also * Timeline of Padua The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Padua in the Veneto region of Italy. Prior to 15th century * 89 BCE - Romans in power. * 45 BCE - Patavium designated a municipium. * 350 CE - Roman Catholic Diocese of Padua establi ... Sources * {{cite book , last = Kohl , first = Benjamin G. , title = Padua under the Carrara, 1318–1405 , year = 1998 , publisher = Johns Hopkins University Press , location = Baltimore , isbn = 0801857031 Padua, Lords of Da Carrara family ...
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Padua
Padua ( ; it, Padova ; vec, Pàdova) is a city and ''comune'' in Veneto, northern Italy. Padua is on the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice. It is the capital of the province of Padua. It is also the economic and communications hub of the area. Padua's population is 214,000 (). The city is sometimes included, with Venice (Italian ''Venezia'') and Treviso, in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area (PATREVE) which has a population of around 2,600,000. Padua stands on the Bacchiglione River, west of Venice and southeast of Vicenza. The Brenta River, which once ran through the city, still touches the northern districts. Its agricultural setting is the Venetian Plain (''Pianura Veneta''). To the city's south west lies the Euganaean Hills, praised by Lucan and Martial, Petrarch, Ugo Foscolo, and Shelley. Padua appears twice in the UNESCO World Heritage List: for its Botanical Garden, the most ancient of the world, and the 14th-century Frescoes, situated in dif ...
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Papafava
The Papafava (sometimes also ''Pappafava'', more precisely ''Papafava dei Carraresi'') were an aristocratic family of Padua, a junior branch of the Carraresi. It was admitted into the Venetian patriciate among the so-called ''Houses Made for Money''. History The family is a branch of the most famous Carraresi: the first to bear the nickname Papafava was a Giacomino da Carrara, Viceroy of Vicenza in 1269, who lived in the 13th century. The lord of Padua Marsilietto Papafava from Carrara was part of the Papafava family branch. The original branch, the one of Papafava dei Carraresi, settled in Venice, where as a result of the financial support that its members gave to the Republic in the War of Candia against the Ottomans, in 1652 they were referred to the Venetian patrician in the person of Cav. Bonifacio Papafava, thus ensuring access to the Greater Council. The Papafava of the Carraresi were confirmed noble by the Austrian imperial government with the Sovereign Resolution ...
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Lords Of Padua
The Lords of Padua ruled the city from 1308 until 1405. The commune of Padua became a hereditary one-man lordship () with the election of Jacopo I da Carrara as ''capitano del popolo'' in 1308. His descendants, the Carraresi, ruled the city and its vicinity, with short interruptions, until they were defeated by the Republic of Venice in the War of Padua, which resulted in the annexation of the city by Venice. See also * Timeline of Padua The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Padua in the Veneto region of Italy. Prior to 15th century * 89 BCE - Romans in power. * 45 BCE - Patavium designated a municipium. * 350 CE - Roman Catholic Diocese of Padua establi ... Sources * {{cite book , last = Kohl , first = Benjamin G. , title = Padua under the Carrara, 1318–1405 , year = 1998 , publisher = Johns Hopkins University Press , location = Baltimore , isbn = 0801857031 Padua, Lords of Da Carrara family ...
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Timeline Of Padua
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Padua in the Veneto region of Italy. Prior to 15th century * 89 BCE - Romans in power. * 45 BCE - Patavium designated a municipium. * 350 CE - Roman Catholic Diocese of Padua established (approximate date). * 452 CE - Padua besieged by Hun forces of Attila. * 540 - Greeks in power. * 601 - Padua besieged by forces of Lombard Agilulf. * 11th century - Constitution created. * 1219 - Palazzo della Ragione built. * 1222 - University of Padua founded. * 1230 - Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua construction begins. * 1237 - Ezzelino III da Romano in power. * 1256 - Ezzelino III ousted. * 1266 - Padua takes nearby Vicenza. * 1284 - Tomb of Antenor rebuilt in the . * 1304 - Salt War with Venice * 1305 - Artist Giotto paints the Scrovegni Chapel (approximate date). * 1311 - Cangrande I della Scala in power. * 1318 - Jacopo I da Carrara becomes lord of Padua. * 1360 - Public clock installed (approximate date). * 1386 - f ...
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Duke Of Milan
The following is a list of rulers of Milan from the 13th century to 1814, after which it was incorporated into the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia by the Congress of Vienna. Before elevation to duchy Until 1259, Milan was a free commune that elected its own ''podestà''. The Torriani family gained sustained power in 1240, when Pagano Della Torre was elected ''podestà''. After Pagano's death, Baldo Ghiringhelli was elected ''podestà'' in 1259, but at the end of his tenure Martino della Torre, Pagano's nephew, perpetrated a coup d'état, seizing of power of his family over the commune, establishing the first '' Signoria'' (Italian for "Lordship") of Milan. During their tenure, the Torriani family, aligned with French Charles of Anjou, started a strong rivality with Visconti family, loyal to the German Hohenstaufen. In 1262, Pope Urban IV appointed Ottone Visconti as Archbishop of Milan, to Martino della Torre's disappointment. In 1273, a civil war started between the two f ...
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Francesco II Da Carrara
Francesco II da Carrara (19 May 1359 – 16 January 1406), known as Francesco il Novello ('Francesco the Younger'), was Lord of Padua after his father, Francesco I il Vecchio, renounced the lordship on 29 June 1388; he was a member of the family of Carraresi. He married Taddea, daughter of Niccolò II d'Este, Lord of Modena. He fought in the Battle of Castagnaro (1387) for Padua. He was executed by Venetian officials after his capture during the war between Venice and Padua (see War of Padua). Burckhardt writes: "when the last Carrara could no longer defend the walls and gates of the plague-stricken Padua, hemmed in on all sides by the Venetians, the soldiers of the guard heard him cry to the devil 'to come and kill him.'" His sons Francesco and Giacomo who had also been captured were executed the following day. In Francesco's extensive '' familia'', or ducal household, the painter Cennino Cennini imbibed the humanist culture expressed in his celebrated ''Libro dell'arte''.Mart ...
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Gian Galeazzo Visconti
Gian Galeazzo Visconti (16 October 1351 – 3 September 1402), was the first duke of Milan (1395) and ruled the late-medieval city just before the dawn of the Renaissance. He also ruled Lombardy jointly with his uncle Bernabò. He was the founding patron of the Certosa di Pavia, completing the Visconti Castle at Pavia begun by his father and furthering work on the Duomo of Milan. He captured a large territory of Northern Italy and the Po valley. He threatened war with France in relation to the transfer of Genoa to French control as well as issues with his beloved daughter Valentina. When he died of fever in the castello of Melegnano, his children fought with each other and fragmented the territories that he had ruled. Biography During his patronage of the Visconti Castle, he contributed to the growth of the collection of scientific treatises and richly illuminated manuscripts in the Visconti Library. Gian Galeazzo was the son of Galeazzo II Visconti and Bianca of Savoy. His ...
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Jacopino Da Carrara
Jacopino del Conte (1510–1598; also spelled ''Iacopino'') was an Italian Mannerist painter, active in both Rome and Florence. A native of Florence, Jacopino del Conte was born the same year as another Florentine master Cecchino del Salviati (whom Conte outlived by 35 years) and, like Salviati and a number of other painters, he initially apprenticed with the influential painter and draftsman Andrea del Sarto. Conte's first frescoes, including ''Annunciation to Zachariah'' (1536), ''Preaching of Saint John the Baptist'' (1538), and ''Baptism of Christ'' (1541) were in the Florentine-supported Oratory of San Giovanni Decollato, in Rome. The ''Preaching'' fresco was based on a drawing by Perin del Vaga. In 1547–48, in collaboration with Siciolante da Sermoneta, Conte completed the fresco decoration of the chapel of San Remigio in San Luigi dei Francesi. In 1552, he painted another work for the San Giovanni Decollato Oratory, the altarpiece ''Deposition'', whose designs are ...
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Francesco I Da Carrara
Francesco I da Carrara (29 September 1325, in Monza – 6 October 1393, in Padua), called il Vecchio, was Lord of Padua from 1350 to 1388. The son of the assassinated Giacomo II da Carrara, he succeeded him as lord of Padua by popular acclamation. In 1356 he was named imperial vicar by emperor Charles IV. In 1360 he obtained by Louis I of Hungary the cities of Feltre and Belluno with their territories, as well as Valsugana, which controlled the trades to Trentino. In 1372-1373 he fought a fruitless war against his powerful neighbor, the Republic of Venice. In 1375-1381 he sided with the Genoa in the War of Chioggia, after which he obtained by Leopold III of Austria the city of Treviso. In 1385, he allied with the Visconti of Milan against the Scaliger of Verona. In 1387 the Paduan troops, led by John Hawkwood and his son Francesco Novello, defeated the Scaliger troops in the Battle of Castagnaro. The following year, however, Venice and Milan formed a colation against Francesc ...
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Jacopo II Da Carrara
Tomb of Jacopo II da Carrara in Church of the Eremitani Jacopo II da Carrara (or Giacomo II) (died 1350), of the Carraresi family, was the ''capitano del popolo'' of Padua from 1345 until his death. Though he assumed power through forged documents and political murder, he was a patron of art and literature. He succeeded in bringing Francesco Petrarca to Padua for a time, and his own son, Francesco I, was an artisan. Jacopo also introduced the '' carrarino'' as the currency of Padua. In May 1345 Jacopo murdered the incumbent prince, Marsiglietto Papafava. He in turn was assassinated in 1350. At his death he was still illiterate, a fact he much regretted, as Petrus Paulus Vergerius wrote in a letter to his grandson Ubertino. His younger brother Jacopino succeeded him as ''capitano'', to be succeeded in turn by Francesco. In 1351 Petrarca wrote a eulogy for the deceased Jacopo, Andriolo de Santi was commissioned to carve his sepulchre, and Guariento di Arpo began work on a fr ...
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Ubertino I Da Carrara
Ubertino I (or II) da Carrara (also ''Uberto'', ''Umberto'' or ''Umbertino''; died 29 March 1345), called Novello and better known as Ubertinello, was the Lord of Padua from 1338 until his death. Tomb of Ubertino da Carrara Youth Ubertinello was the son of Jacopino da Carrara of the Carraresi clan of Padua, where he was born early in the 14th century. His mother was Fina Fieschi. To distinguish him from his uncle Ubertino il Vecchio, he is usually known as either Ubertino Novello or Ubertinello. In August 1319, Ubertinello, Albertino Mussato, and Giovanni di Vigonza were sent by Jacopino to seek help from Bologna when Cangrande I della Scala, with Rinaldo d'Este and Obizzo III of Ferrara, besieged Padua. They failed in their mission and, on 4 November, Jacopino offered the city to the protection of Henry of Görz, the vicar of Treviso for Frederick III of Germany. Quarrel with the Dente On 17 July 1325, Ubertinello became involved in an extremely violent quarrel with horrib ...
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Medieval Commune
Medieval communes in the European Middle Ages had sworn allegiances of mutual defense (both physical defense and of traditional freedoms) among the citizens of a town or city. These took many forms and varied widely in organization and makeup. Communes are first recorded in the late 11th and early 12th centuries, thereafter becoming a widespread phenomenon. They had greater development in central-northern Italy, where they became city-states based on partial democracy. At the same time in Germany they became free cities, independent from local nobility. Etymology The English and French word "commune" ( it, comune) appears in Latin records in various forms. They come from Medieval Latin , plural form of (that which is common, community, state), substantive noun from (common). Ultimately, the Proto-Indo-European root is ''*mey-'' (to change, exchange). When autonomy was won through violent uprising and overthrow, the commune was often called (a conspiracy) ( it, cospirazione ...
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