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The House of Rossetti is an Italian noble, and Boyar Princely family appearing in the 14th-15th century, originating among the patrician families, during the Republic of Genoa, with branches of the family establishing themselves in the
Kingdom of Austria, and France, and as
boyars
A boyar or bolyar was a member of the highest rank of the feudal nobility in many Eastern European states, including Kievan Rus', Bulgaria, Russia, Wallachia and Moldavia, and later Romania, Lithuania and among Baltic Germans. Boyars were sec ...
in Romania that gave Princes of Wallachia and Moldavia. The variants of the name are spelled Ruset, Rosset, Rossetti, of Byzantine and Italian origins. In
Moldavia
Moldavia ( ro, Moldova, or , literally "The Country of Moldavia"; in Romanian Cyrillic: or ; chu, Землѧ Молдавскаѧ; el, Ἡγεμονία τῆς Μολδαβίας) is a historical region and former principality in Centr ...
there are several branches of the
Rosetti family
The House of Rosetti (also spelled ''Ruset'', ''Rosset, Rossetti'') was a Moldavian boyar princely family of Byzantine Greek and Italian (from Genoa) origins. There are several branches of the family named after their estates: Roznovanu, Solescu, ...
named after their estates: Roznovanu, Solescu, Bălănescu, Răducanu, Ciortescu, Tescanu, and Bibica. The Rosetti family in
Wallachia
Wallachia or Walachia (; ro, Țara Românească, lit=The Romanian Land' or 'The Romanian Country, ; archaic: ', Romanian Cyrillic alphabet: ) is a historical and geographical region of Romania. It is situated north of the Lower Danube and so ...
is a branch of the Moldavian family.
Dicţionar istoric, arheologic şi geografic al României, 1937, pp. 450-451
/ref> The origins of the Rossetti family suggest descent from the della Gherardesca family
The House della Gherardesca was an old noble family of the Republic of Pisa, dating back as early as the 11th century of Longobard origin.
They were an important one of the most prominent initially in Pisa, then of Volterra and eventually and of ...
, a noble family of Germanic origins whose alliance with the Hohenstaufen
The Hohenstaufen dynasty (, , ), also known as the Staufer, was a noble family of unclear origin that rose to rule the Duchy of Swabia from 1079, and to royal rule in the Holy Roman Empire during the Middle Ages from 1138 until 1254. The dynasty ...
Emperors had brought the family to prominence in Tuscany, and made them the leaders of the Ghibellines
The Guelphs and Ghibellines (, , ; it, guelfi e ghibellini ) were factions supporting the Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor, respectively, in the Italian city-states of Central Italy and Northern Italy.
During the 12th and 13th centuries, rivalr ...
, who feuded against the Guelphs
The Guelphs and Ghibellines (, , ; it, guelfi e ghibellini ) were factions supporting the Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor, respectively, in the Italian city-states of Central Italy and Northern Italy.
During the 12th and 13th centuries, rivalr ...
for political control during the Guelph and Ghibelline Wars between 1120s–1320s.
Notable people with the surname Rossetti
Notable people with the surname Rossetti include (by year of birth):
* Biagio Rossetti
Biagio Rossetti ( 1447 – 1516) was an Italian architect and urbanist from Ferrara. A military engineer since 1483, and the ducal architect of Ercole I d'Este, in 1492 Rossetti was assigned the project of enlarging the city of Ferrara.
Rossett ...
(c. 1447–1516), architect and urbanist from Ferrara, the first to use modern methods
* Stefano Rossetti
Stefano Rossetto (also Rossetti) (floruit, fl. 1560–1580) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance music, Renaissance, born in Nice, who worked mainly in Florence for the powerful Medici family, and in Munich.
Life
His life has not yet b ...
or Rossetto (fl.
''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...
1560–1580), Italian composer to the Medici
* Lascaris Rosetti
The Laskaris or Lascaris ( el, Λάσκαρις, later Λάσκαρης) family was a Byzantine Greek noble family whose members formed the ruling dynasty of the Empire of Nicaea from 1204 to 1261 and remained among the senior nobility up to the ...
(1580-1646), high chancellor of the Patriarchate of Constantinople
** Bella Rosetti (b. 1534-1594, d. 17th century) born Cantacuzino, wife of Lascaris Rosetti
** Constantin Rosetti (1600–1688), son of Bella and Lascaris Rosetti
** Prince Antoine Ruset Voda (ca. 1615-1685), son of Bella and Lascaris Rosetti
* Carlo Rossetti
Carlo Rossetti, ca. 1654-1672.
Carlo Rossetti (Roscetti) (1614 – 23 November 1681) was an Italian Catholic Cardinal, born of the noble Rossetti family in Ferrara. Earlier in his career he went to London as a secret nuncio on behalf of Pope Urb ...
(1614–1681), Italian cardinal, nobleman
* Giuseppina Rossetti, mother of Lorenzo Respighi
Lorenzo Respighi (7 October 1824 – 10 December 1889) was an Italian people, Italian mathematician and natural philosopher. Born at Cortemaggiore, Province of Piacenza, Piacenza, to Luigi Respighi and Giuseppina Rossetti. He studied mathematics ...
(1824–1889), Italian mathematician and natural philosopher
* Constantin Rosetti
Constantin Alexandru Rosetti (; 2 June 1816 – 8 April 1885) was a Romanian literary and political leader, born in Bucharest into the princely Rosetti family.
Biography Before 1848
Constantin Alexandru Rosetti was born in Bucharest, the son ...
(C. A. Rosetti; 1816–1885), Romanian literary, academia, and political leader, of noble Byzantine descent
* Francesco Rossetti Francesco Rossetti (Trento, 14 September 1833 – Padova, 20 April 1885) was a notable Italian experimental physicist.
Biography
Son of Giovanni Battista, Rossetti started his education in his natal town Trento. He then attended the University of ...
(1833–1885), Italian physicist
* Raffaele Rossetti
Raffaele Rossetti (12 July 1881 – 24 December 1951) was an Italian engineer and military naval officer who sank the main battleship of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the end of World War I. He was also a politician of the Italian Republican Pa ...
(1881–1951), Italian engineer and military naval officer who sank the main battleship of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the end of World War I. Politician of the Italian Republican Party.
* Cezaro Rossetti
Cezaro Rossetti (1901 –8 May 1950) was a Scottish Esperanto writer.
Of Italian-Swiss derivation, he was born in Glasgow and lived in Britain. Together with his younger brother, Reto Rossetti, he learned Esperanto in 1928. He studied in Bomba ...
(1901–1950), Scottish Esperanto writer
* Gino Rossetti
Gino Rossetti (; 7 November 1904 – 15 May 1992) was an Italian football manager and former footballer who played as a forward. He jointly holds the record for the all-time most goals scored in a single Italian league season at 36 goals with T ...
(1904–1992), Italian footballer
* Reto Rossetti
Reto Rossetti (11 April 1909 – 20 September 1994) was a poet and an Esperantist professor. He was Italian-Swiss and retained his nationality, although he lived all his life in Britain. His professional career as a teacher in art colleges culmina ...
(1909–1994), British-based, officially Italian-Swiss poet and Esperantist professor, brother of Cezaro
* Mario J. Rossetti
Mario J. Rossetti (October 23, 1935 – July 8, 2014) was an American jurist.
Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, Rosetti went to Grover Cleveland High School in Buffalo, New York. He received his bachelor's degree from University at Buffalo, T ...
(1935-2014), American jurist
* Stephen Joseph Rossetti
Stephen Joseph Rossetti (born June 15, 1951) is an American Catholic priest, author, educator, licensed psychologist and expert on psychological and spiritual wellness issues for Catholic priests. He has appeared on such television shows as Mee ...
(born 1951), American Roman Catholic priest, author, lecturer and psychologist
* Sergio Rossetti Morosini
Sergio Rossetti Morosini (born 1953) is a Brazilian-American Scholar, artist and author of Venetian extraction who served as Brazil's Cultural attaché in New Orleans and is dedicated to preserving the Atlantic Forest and restoring the art in st ...
(1953– ), New York author, painter, sculptor and independent filmmaker, has recently sculpted the bust of Michelangelo on the façade of the National Arts Club
The National Arts Club is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and members club on Gramercy Park, Manhattan, New York City. It was founded in 1898 by Charles DeKay, an art and literary critic of the ''New York Times'' to "stimulate, foster, and promote public ...
in New York. First to observe that in 1511, Titian described the volume in a two-dimensional fresco painting, Miracle of the Jealous Husband
The ''Miracle of the Jealous Husband'' is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance master Titian, executed in 1511 as part of the decoration of the Scuola del Santo in Padua, northern Italy.
It portrays a man stabbing his wife after she has been unj ...
, in the it:Scuola del Santo
The Scuola del Santo or Scoletta was the headquarters of the Archconfraternity of St Anthony of Padua. It overhangs the churchyard of Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua, next door to the St. George's Oratory.
The Confraternity built the ...
, Padua, Italy, by actually sculpting it in relief rather than describing it illusionistically.
Gallery of styles
Arms of Rossetti.jpg, Coat of Arms of Rossetti:Blue with a silver band loaded with three red roses
Rossetti Stemma.jpg, Rossetti Stemma
Rossetti 1754.jpg, Rossetti Arms displayed on Palazzo
Graf von Rossetti.jpg, Rossetti family Wappen
See also
* Rossetti Architects
ROSSETTI is an architectural design and planning firm headquartered in Detroit, Michigan.[Contact]
" ROSSETTI. Retrieved on November 16, 2009. ...
, a Detroit architectural design firm
* Rosetti (disambiguation)
Rosetti may refer to:
* Rosetti (company), a fashion brand, producing handbags and accessories
* Rosette (cookie) (), a Finnish dessert
* Rosetti family
* Piața Rosetti, a small square in Bucharest, Romania
People with the surname
* Alexandru ...
References
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Italian-language surnames
Italian nobility
Austrian nobility
Phanariotes
Russian nobility
Boyars