Antonio Barbaro (died 1679) was a
Venetian
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* Venice, a city in Italy
* Veneto, a region of Italy
* Republic of Venice (697–1797), a historical nation in that area
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general and governor, a member of the patrician
Barbaro family
The Barbaro family was a Patricianship, patrician family of Venice. They were wealthy and influential and owned large estates in the Veneto above Treviso.Encyclopedia of Italian Renaissance & Mannerist art, Volume 1', Jane Turner, New York, 200 ...
of
Venice
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(now
Italy
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). Barbaro lived at a time when Venice had a maritime empire in the Mediterranean. He served in Candia (now
Heraklion
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),
Crete
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during the long-lasting
Siege of Candia
The siege of Candia (modern Heraklion, Crete) was a military conflict in which Ottoman forces besieged the Venetian-ruled city. Lasting from 1648 to 1669, or a total of 21 years, it is the second-longest siege in history after the siege of Ce ...
. He was
Captain of the Gulf
The Captain of the Gulf ( vec, Capitan del Golfo; it, Capitano in/del Golfo) was a senior naval command of the Republic of Venice.
The post was established around 1330, when a squadron of ships was set up to patrol the "Gulf of Venice" (as the Ad ...
from 1655–56, and in 1667 he became ''
Provveditore generale di Candia
The Realm or Kingdom of Candia ( Venetian: ''Regno de Càndia'') or Duchy of Candia (Venetian: ''Dogado de Càndia'' ) was the official name of Crete during the island's period as an overseas colony of the Republic of Venice, from the initial Ve ...
''. He also served in the Balkans; from 1670 he became the ''provveditore generale'' of
Venetian Dalmatia
Venetian Dalmatia ( la, Dalmatia Veneta) refers to parts of Dalmatia under the rule of the Republic of Venice, mainly from the 15th to the 18th centuries. Dalmatia was first sold to Venice in 1409 but Venetian Dalmatia was not fully consolidated f ...
and
Venetian Albania
Venetian Albania ( vec, Albania vèneta, it, Albania Veneta, Serbian and Montenegrin: Млетачка Албанија / ''Mletačka Albanija'', ) was the official term for several possessions of the Republic of Venice in the southeastern Adr ...
. When he died, he left 30 thousand "ducati" for the rebuilding of the church of
Santa Maria Zobenigo
The Chiesa di Santa Maria del Giglio is a church in Venice, Italy.
The church, whose name translates into ''St. Mary of the Lily'' referring to the flower classically depicted as being presented by the Angel Gabriel during the Annunciation), is m ...
in Venice.
Bibliography
* ''Decisione degli auditori nuovi alle sentenze di Venezia''. 1693 maggio 28, Venezia Decisione di Antonio Barbaro, Benedetto Zorzi ed Alvise Gritti, auditori nuovi alle sentenze di Venezia sulla sentenza emessa da Alvise Priuli, capitano di Bergamo, a favore del marchese Gaspare Giacinto Martinengo fu Gherardo e contro la comunità di Calcinate, per l'elezione a canevaro, camparo e tesoriere del comune.
* Michaela Marangoni: ''Una famiglia veneziana nella storia: i Barbaro; atte del Convegno di Studi in Occasione del Quinto Centenario della Morte dell'Umanista Ermolao''; Venezia, 4 - 6 novembre 1993. Venezia, 1996
* A. Miculian: ''Copia dei Capitoli già stabiliti dall’ Ill. mo et ecc. mo Sig.r Antonio Barbaro Prov.re Gnal in Dalmatia, et Albania per gl’Haiduci''
1679 deaths
Antonio
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Year of birth unknown
Republic of Venice military personnel
Venetian governors
17th-century Italian military personnel
Provveditori Generali di Dalmazia
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