Elisabetta Querini

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Elisabetta Querini

Elisabetta Querini (born November 12, 1628 in Venice ; † January 19, 1709 there ) was the last crowned Dogaressa of the Republic of Venice .

Life

Elisabetta was born as the daughter of Procurator Paolo Querini from the Stampalia branch and his wife Bianca Ruzzini, from whose family the 113th Doge Carlo Ruzzini emerged . The Querini family lived in a palace near Santa Maria Formosa , now the seat of the Fondazione Querini Stampaglia . In addition to 10 houses near the family palace, Elisabetta owned lands near Padua , in Polesine and near Verona, as well as a foundry near Mira. On July 7, 1649 she married the 18-year-old Silvestro Valier , son of the 109th Doge Bertuccio Valier . She brought a dowry of 40,000 ducats into the marriage. Although Silvestro had not previously held an office in the service of the republic, he was appointed procuratore di sopra on August 1st of the same year , one of the most prestigious and influential offices ever that the republic had to assign, and traditionally an excellent recommendation for represented the Doge's office. Elisabetta and Silvestro both loved the card game, led a luxurious and lavish life and represented the splendor and splendor of the Serenissima as the companions of high-ranking state guests such as Margarita , Infanta of Spain. On February 25, 1694, Silvestro was elected Doge. On March 4 of that year, Elisabetta was with great pomp in the Doge's Palace with a golden jeweled Corno to dogaressa crowned, which was prohibited by a law of the 1645th After the Doge election, both generously distributed silver Oselle to the people , as they made popular with the people through events of luxurious festivals and amusements.

In 1700 the doge, Elisabetta Querini, died nine years later. After the doge's death, she oversaw the construction of a huge funerary monument in San Zanipolo , where she was buried next to the two Valier doges. The Valier tomb, erected between 1705 and 1708 based on a design by Andrea Tirali , is the last of the great doge tombs in Venice.

Elisabetta died childless. She bequeathed part of her great fortune to her cousin Giovanni Antonio Ruzzini, father of eleven children and brother of the future Doge Carlo Ruzzini. In her will she ordered 1,000 masses for herself. She gave a number of relatives, friends, churches and charitable institutions with legacies, including a sum of 10,000 ducats to the Ospedale of Zitelle .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andrea da Mosto: I dogi di Venezia , Milan 2003. p. 441.
personal data
SURNAME Querini, Elisabetta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dogaressa
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1628
PLACE OF BIRTH Venice
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1709
Place of death Venice