Autore
Sambo, Alessandra

Titolo
Strategie d'immortalità tra resistenze private e veti pubblici. Donne e famiglie nella Venezia del Seicento
Periodico
Quaderni storici
Anno: 2013 - Volume: 143 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 567 - Pagina finale: 596

In the year 1638 the Venetian noblewoman Donata Tiepolo, together with herdaughters, lodged an appeal against two donations, her mother-in-law's and her ownone, as well as against her late husband's, Domenico Trevisan, will. In Domenico'splans, such legacies were meant to perpetuate the ever-lasting memory of his householdvia the institution of a primogeniture right and the building of a magnificentmemorial. Opposite to such view, Donata took legal action because such legacieshas been extorted and her late husband's will was against her daughters' right fora fair share of their father's inheritance and of their marital dowries. Against allpredictions, they succeeded. This case-study, anomalous in its outcome and in thelegal battle engaged (thank to the tool of the so-called «protesto segreto») showsprivate and public strategies, brutal action and perverted logics acted by the patriciatein order to guarantee its perpetuation in the first decades of the seventeenthcentury. But it also shows the mentality that stood behind women's choicesand behaviours. Besides an unusual documentary series, uncovered in Venice StateArchives, allows challenging some historical categories regarding well-assessed commonplaces such as Venetian women's independence and their agency towards menin general, when compared to other societies and places. In this case, it is patentthat such autonomy (and its legal tools) turned into an element of inner fragilitywithin the family, let alone a permanent source of potential conflict between generations.



SICI: 0301-6307(2013)143:2<567:SDTRPE>2.0.ZU;2-J
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