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From the History of Boka: Stjepan Tartaro – An Eminent Entrepreneur in XVIth Century Venice
Lovorka Čoralić
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The emigration of Boka inhabitants across the Adriatic to Venice make them a constituent and, going by numbers, a significant segment of the history of Croatian migratory movements during the early Modern Age. During the most intensive immigration to the city on the lagoons, the common metropolis of the time for the whole coastal region from Umag to Bar, the emigrants from Kotor made up numerically the majority of the numerous Croatian community in Venice which was recognized both by its activities and its reputation. It was precisely at this time, during the XVIth century, that large numbers of eminent Croatian emigrants, entrepreneurs, merchants, seamen but also artists and intellectuals as well were active in the city on the lagoons who each in his own way made significant contributions to the cultural and economic connections between the two neighboring coasts. Stjepan Tartaro – an emigrant from Boka from the beginning of the XVIth century – was precisely an example of such an industrious and enterprising, successful and wealthy Croat in Venice. On the basis of original sources from the State Archive in Venice, primarily from last testaments, the article analyzes the life of Stjepan Tartaro and of his wife Helena Boico and describes the basic facets of their activities in Venice. The author describes their economic fortunes and business activities, their ties with Venetian religious communities and clergy and – particularly – their connections to the Croatian emigrant community and their national fraternal association of St George and Tripun. The last testaments of the Tartaro marriage partners, rich in content, bear witness to the significant role they played in the everyday life of the Croatian diaspora in Venice, their ties to emigrants from all parts of the Croatian ethnic space of the time (particularly to the people coming from Boka) but also their total adaptation to the new environment in which they found their second (and permanent) homeland. The life journeys and fates of the Tartaro family are doubtlessly but one fragment from the data-abundant history of the Croatian community in Venice during the XVIth century – a period of the strongest migration movements between the two Adriatic shores and the time of the most numerous presence of Croats in Venice. These bear witness to how seemingly wholly ordinary individuals, perhaps accidental to key historical events, contributed to the ties and the propinquity of two people who are connected by a common sea.
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12079
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Datum izdavanja:
17.8.2004.
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