Priuli

Venetian patrician family
Portrait of Girolamo Priuli (detail), by Tintoretto (Detroit Institute of Arts)

The House of Priuli was a prominent aristocratic family in the Republic of Venice; they entered the Venetian nobility early in the 14th century. Their members include:

  • Andriana Priuli - wife of Francesco Cornaro, Doge of Venice (1625–1629)
  • Antonio Priuli (1548–1623), 94th Doge of Venice (1618–1623)
  • Antonio Priuli (fl. 1669), Venetian official
  • Antonio Priuli (fl. 1670), provveditore generale of Dalmatia
  • Antonio Maria Priuli, bishop of Venice 1738-1767; bishop of Padova 1767-1772
  • Bianca Priuli - mother of Bertuccio Valiero, Doge of Venice (1656–1658)
  • Giovanni Priuli (1575–1626), Venetian composer and organist
  • Girolamo Priuli (1476–1547) aristocrat and diarist
  • Girolamo Priuli (1486–1567) 83rd Doge of Venice, starting in 1559
  • Hieronimo Priuli, Podesta e capitanio di Rovigo, Provveditor General di Polesina, 17th century[1]
  • Lorenzo Priuli (1489–1559) 82nd Doge of Venice, starting in 1556
  • Lorenzo Priuli (cardinal) (1537-1600), Patriarch of Venice 1591-1600[2]
  • Ludovico Priuli assistant to Cardinal Reginald Pole (1500–1558)
  • Matteo Priuli (bishop), Bishop of Novigrad (1561–1565), and Bishop of Vicenza (1565–1579)
  • Matteo Priuli (cardinal)
  • Michele Priuli (died 1603), bishop of Vicenza 1579-1603
  • Michele Priuli, son of Francesco, Venetian Senator and Procurator (1627)
  • Marieta Morosina Priuli (fl. 1665) Italian composer
  • Nicolo' Priuli - (1792- prior to 1855) statesman and patron
  • Pietro Priuli, bishop of Bergamo, cardinal


References

  1. ^ Bibliografia veneziana, Volumes 1-2 By Girolamo Soranzo and Emmanuele Antonio Cicogna, Burt Franklin, New York, 1885, page 505.
  2. ^ "Lorenzo Cardinal Priuli [Catholic-Hierarchy]".

Sources

  • Thomas Okey (1907). The old Venetian palaces and old Venetian folk. J.M. Dent. pp. 203-.


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