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The wish for penitence in the Eternal City: pilgrimages to Rome in the testaments of Croatian immigrants in Venice (15th-18th centuries)
Lovorka Čoralić
; Hrvatski institut za povijest, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
The Croatian immigrant community in Venice had for centuries, and particularly in the era of Venetian domination over the major part of the eastern Adriatic coast, represented one of the most numerous and socially most distinguished foreign ethnic groups. Present there from the very first centuries of cross-Adriatic relations and interrelations, the Croats of Venice formed a recognised community, both very adaptable and well-integrated group, which contributed to the multi-ethnicity of Venice of those times. Among the features undoubtedly confirming that the Croats were well integrated into the new community is clearly their religious life and declaration of piety. Pilgrimages, being one of the exceptionally strong and present forms thereof, represented the component that did not differentiate our immigrants from other inhabitants of Venice (or any other city in Catholic Europe) or from their fellow-countrymen. Based on the data contained in the testaments (deposited at the State Archives of Venice) and following the manner in which Rome was mentioned as the centre of pilgrimage, the first part of the paper briefly presents general data on Croatian immigrants in Venice who had registered Rome as pilgrims’ aimed destination in the provisions contained in their testaments (social and professional structure, and immigrant groups; the time span and the intensity of mentioning the pilgrimages to Rome; data on more distinguished Croatian testators, etc). The second part of the paper focuses on concrete examples referring to the pilgrimages to Rome. In this part of the paper, special attention has been devoted to concrete nomination of pilgrims and their social structure; types of legates that had been intended for settling the expenses of pilgrimages; and the reasons that had moved Croatian testators to include this type of provisions into their testament. Finally, the aim of this paper is to emphasise the following: Rome as a particularly important meeting place of pilgrimage for the Croats; and one less known and analysed component of the history of Croatian community in Venice.
Ključne riječi
Rome; Venice; Venetian Republic; Croats; Croatian history; late Middle Ages; Early New Age; migrations; pilgrimages
Hrčak ID:
112408
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Datum izdavanja:
17.12.2013.
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