Original scientific paper
Venetian Church and Monastery of San Lorenzo in the Last Wills of the Croatian Emigrants (15th – 17th Centuries)
Lovorka Čoralić
orcid.org/0000-0002-9333-7221
; Croatian Institute of History, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
This article is based on the archival sources from the Archivio di Stato di Venezia, primarily on the testamentary records of the Croatian emigrants that are preserved within the archival series Notarile testament and Corporazioni religiose soppresse. Autor focuses on the relation between the Croatian emigrants and the respectable Venetian church and Benedictine monastery of San Lorenzo, which is placed in the part of Venice called Castello, which was frequently also dwelling place of non-Venetian national groups. The time frame of this investigation covers the period between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. In the first part of the article, author delivers general and basic data (gender, origin, occupation, place of residence, economic possibilities, etc.) about the Croatians connected with the above-mentioned Benedictine institution. The chief part of the article is dedicated to the analysis of the information from the last wills; author evaluates the church of San Lorenzo as a burial site and place where the memorial services were held for the deceased Croatian emigrants. Moreover, the author analyzes testamentary bequests to Benedictine monks, as well as those bequests in which monks and nuns were recorded as executors of the last wills. In the closing part of the article, the author examines in detail some of the analyzed testaments. The main goal of this contribution is to reveal and discuss a part of the religious life and piety of the Croats who emigrated to Venice, in the context of the rich and still not sufficiently investigated historic relations between Croatia and Venice.
Keywords
Migrations; Venetians; church and monastery San Lorenzo; testaments; history of late medieval and early modern period; ecclesiastical history
Hrčak ID:
199582
URI
Publication date:
21.12.2017.
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