Carlo Diodati

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Carlo Diodati (born September 17, 1541 in Lucca , † 1625 in Geneva ) was a Tuscan patrician and European trader who emigrated from Lucca to Geneva in 1567 because of his evangelical faith.

Life

Diodati was the third son of Michele Diodati and Anna Buonvisi after Alessandro and Antonio. He came from a family that traced back to a deodato in Coreglia in the 12th century. The family later moved to Lucca, where some of its members worked as doctors and surgeons, and in the 15th century they got married to merchants and bankers . Thus the Diodatis gained influence, took a seat in communal offices and developed in the first half of the 16th century under Nicolao, Girolamo and Michele Diodati to the second richest family in Lucca. They owned the trading house Diodati-Buonvisi, which had branches in Genoa , Lyon and Antwerp and specialized in silk trading .

Diodati's father and thus the whole family was evangelically influenced by the prior of the monastery of San Frediano and later reformer Peter Martyr Vermigli , although he was suspected of heresy by the Inquisition and later by the authorities . The General Council of Luccas summoned his father on July 30, 1567 and threatened him with the death penalty and expropriation. The Protestant family Diodati had fled to Geneva with Salvatore Franceschi and Giuseppe Giona. On March 3, 1568, Michele Diodati was convicted in absentia as a heretic and his property there was confiscated.

Carlo Diodati married Flaminia Micheli, who also fled from Lucca, in Geneva in 1568, but she died at the end of March 1569 with the birth of their first son Teodoro. Diodati received citizenship in Geneva in 1572 . Together with his cousin Pompeo Diodati and other refugees from Lucca, he worked in the production and trading of silk and wool as well as in finance. The descendants of the Geneva branch of the Diodatis held some important positions in church, politics, the military and the economy. Some of them took the name Déodat .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Micheline Tripet: Diodati. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  2. ^ Mario Turchetti: Diodati, Carlo , in: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 40, 1991
personal data
SURNAME Diodati, Carlo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tuscan patrician and merchant
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1541
PLACE OF BIRTH Lucca
DATE OF DEATH 1625
Place of death Geneva