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Croatian emigrants and the Venetian Scuola grande S. Marco
Lovorka Čoralić
orcid.org/0000-0002-9333-7221
; Hrvatski institut za povijest
Sažetak
This essay uses sources from the State Archives in Venice testaments, account books of the confraternity of St Marco) to show the various forms of connectedness and communication between Croatian immigrants in Venice and the confraternity of St. Marco. In the past centuries, this confraternity was one of the best known and most respected confraternal organizations in the city on the lagoons. I analyze the regional and social structure of Croats connected to the
confraternity of S. Marco and indicate the key components that are related to the link between Croats and the confraternity. Because testaments were the key sources for this study, research questions chiefly focus on the choice of the final resting place of immigrant Croats, in the seat of the confraternity; legacies with which immigrants left bequests to the confraternity and its members; and specific instructions that regulated the role of the confraternity in the last rites and the funeral of the deceased. The final section contains a review of Croatian visual artists and their contribution to the decoration of the seat of the confraternity (Ivan Duknović, turn of the sixteenth century). In conclusion, the goal of this study is to emphasize a less known but nonetheless important component of the life of the Croatian community in Venice, as well as their integration into Venetian religious and social everyday existence.
Ključne riječi
church history; Early Modern era; Venice; Croatian emigrants; confraternities; Confraternity of St. Marco
Hrčak ID:
39822
URI
Datum izdavanja:
30.7.2009.
Posjeta: 1.986 *