Can of Nicoloti

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The head of the Venetian community of San Nicolò , the Nicoloti , or the Capo of the Contrada of San Nicolò , was called the Doge or Dose dei Nicoloti . In the two contrade of S. Angelo Raffaele and S. Nicolò dei Mendicoli mostly poor fishermen lived. The neighboring Castellani claimed it was just a Gastalde , hence it was also called Gastaldo Grande de'Nicolotti . It had special rights and distinguishing features and existed until the end of the Venetian Republic in 1797.

This can or doge was chosen in the church of S. Nicolò and had to promise the Doge of Venice to treat his parishioners like a father. Thereupon he kissed the hand and coat of the Venetian Doge, in order to be presented to his congregation in a solemn ceremony. In public he wore a long, red damask outer garment (silk damask in summer) with wide sleeves. At the Festa della Sensa he had the right to moor his boat at the stern of the Dogenschiff, the Bucintoro . He was allowed to collect a fee from the fishing boats of his contrada . He was also entitled to two boats for selling fish at the fish market in Rialto and at that of San Marco. The Doge of San Nicolò was assigned twelve councilors and a chancellor who managed the fishermen's guild.

The last Nicolotti Doge was called Vincenzo Dabalà, nicknamed Manestra . He sat in the municipal assembly, the Municipalità provisoria in 1797. He died on April 2, 1830 at the age of 81.

In 1850 Ida von Düringsfeld wrote her Antonio Foscarini , in which the Nicolotti Doge appears in the third volume.

literature

  • Art. Dose dei Nicoloti , in: Giuseppe Boerio : Dizionario del dialetto veneziano , Venice 1829, p. 199.
  • Alessandro Zanchi: La Elezion del Dose dei Nicoloti (comedy not approved for printing).
  • La Guerra de 'Nicolotli e Castellani dell'anno 1521 , poem by an unknown author, Venice 1817 and 1845.

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Remarks

  1. ^ Giuseppe Tassini : Curiosità Veneziane - Ovvero: Origini delle denominazioni stradali di Venezia , Giusto Fuga, 1915, p. 549.
  2. ^ Ida von Düringsfeld: Antonio Foscarini , Stuttgart 1850, p. 136f.
  3. It appears in Emmanuele Antonio Cicogna : Saggio di bibliografia veneziana composto , n. 5735.