Carlo Antonio Marin

Carlo Antonio Marin (born January 4, 1745 in Orzinuovi in the province of Brescia , † April 17, 1815 in Venice ) was a Venetian historian.

Life

Carlo Antonio was born into a noble Venetian family who belonged to the Case Nuove . Like most noble men, he filled state offices such as Provveditore and Capitano of Salò and Provveditore of the western Greek islands of Cefalonia and Itaca . Above all, however, he led various warships, initially lightly armed, i.e. those with a smaller crew, which were referred to as sottile , but later also galleys. In doing so he rose to sopracomito .

In Corfu he married 16-year-old Isabella Teotochi (Albrizzi) from the island in 1776 at the mediation of Andrea Verlamo and at the insistence of her mother. Their son Giovan Battista Marin emerged from this marriage the next year , but their aversion to Marin began right from the start. When Marin was elected provider of Cefalonia, his wife refused to travel with them. So he started the trip to Greece alone. In 1794 Isabella presented to the Archbishop of Corfu to annul the marriage , which Marin resisted. Despite negative decisions, Isabella continued her efforts and was there, she lived in Venice since 1779, by the influential Inquisitor Giovanni Battista VI. Albrizzi supports. Thanks to the mediation of Pietro Pesaro , the envoy of the Republic of Venice in Rome, she received from Pope Pius VI. Support. This instructed the Bishop of Belluno to consider annulment of the marriage, the bishop being friends with Angelo Querini. On July 6, 1795, a positive answer was received from there, and two days later the marriage was dissolved. In 1796 she married the wealthy and educated inquisitor Giuseppe Albrizzi.

Marin took over the management of the most important of the three branches into which the State Archives were divided at the time. While his Dépendance in San Teodoro kept the “political” archives, the court files were in San Giovanni in Laterano, in San Provolo those of the Treasury and the Domains. The competent French minister, based in Milan , received Marin's report on the condition of his archives on September 24, 1807.

Marin's main work was mainly composed in the decade after his politico-military career, after the end of the Republic of Venice in 1797. He wrote his monumental Storia civile e politica del commercio de'Veneziani in eight volumes, which was published in Venice from 1798 to 1808 has been. For Samuele Romanin the work was a tremendous amount of hard work, but linguistically and in the use of sources, Romanin said, it had considerable shortcomings.

Marin owned the Villa Marin in Gardigiano , named after his family , today a frazione of Scorzè .

Remarks

1. ↑ Vanna Marisa Fonsato: Giudizi letterari di Isabella Teotochi Albrizzi nel Carteggio inedito della Raccolta Piancastelli , PhD, Montreal 1992, p. 33
2. ^ Armand Baschet: Histoire de la Chancellerie secrète , Henri Plon, Paris 1870, p. 11.
3. ^ Samuele Romanin: Storia di Venezia , Naratovich, Venice 1860, p. 57 f.