Piero Giustinian

Rerum venetarum ab urbe condita historia , Venice 1670

Piero Giustinian , usually called Pietro Giustiniani or Pietro Giustiniano (* around 1490 in Venice ; † 1576 ), was a Venetian senator and historian.

In 1518 Piero Giustinian, son of Luigi Giustinian, is tangible as a member of the Grand Council. He went through a purely local official career, at the end of which he was a member of the Senate. He held the position of Savio agli Ordini , Maggior Savio and Esecutore alle Acque .

In 1560 his unauthorized history of the Republic of Venice appeared under the title Rerum venetarum ab urbe condita historia , which, however, met with criticism. In 1575 and 1576 a three-volume version was published, initially in Latin, which later also appeared in the vernacular, the Volgare . Although encouraged by Ramusio , Marco Foscarini later criticized that he had copied many of the mistakes of Francesco Sansovino and had mainly concentrated on his own epoch.

The 17-volume work, the last volume of which, which covers the period from 1533, was probably never published at the author's behest, was supplemented by Emmanuele Antonio Cicogna in 1830 by a translation of the surviving manuscript into Volgare.

Work and editions

• Rerum Venetarum ab urbe condita ad annum 1575 historia , Venice 1576. Digitized
• Le historie Venetiane, del clarissimo S. Pietro Giustiniano, nobile venetiano. Di nuouo reuedute, & ampliate, Nelle quali si contengono tutte le cose notabili, occorse dal principio della fondatione della Città, sino all'anno MD LXXVI. Purhora in lingua volgare tradotte , Lodovico Avanzo, Venice 1576. ( digitized version )
• Dell'historie venetiane , Giovanni Battista Brigna, Venice 1670. ( digitized version )

literature

• Gino Benzoni :  Giustinian, Pietro. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 57:  Giulini – Gonzaga. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2001.
• Giuseppe Pavanello: Giustiniani, Pietro , in: Enciclopedia Italiana (1933)

Remarks

1. ^ Marco Foscarini: Della letteratura veneziana , Venice 1854.
2. ^ Emmanuele Antonio Cicogna: Della Istoria Viniziana di P. Giustiniani F. di Luigi Patrizio Veneto Libro decimosettimo ora per la prima volta di latino in volgare tradotto , Giuseppe Piccotti, Venice 1830 ( digitized ).