Marco Barbaro

Marco Barbaro (* 1511 in Venice, † 1570 ibid ), called Il Gobbo ( The Hunchback ), was the son of Marco Barbaro and Samaritana Badoer. He was a genealogist and author during the time of the Renaissance in Venice.

Life

Marco Barbaro belonged to the aristocratic Barbaro family, one of the richest families in the Republic of Venice. In his works he dealt in particular with the aristocracy of Venice, which he described as closed group at the end of the 13th century in Famiglie nobili venete.

Barbaro wrote other works as Arbori dei Veneti and Patritii Libro di Nozze. His writings were never published, the manuscripts received are often used in new studies on the Venetian nobility as sources, however, are not for the period before about 1430 reliably.

The Famiglie nobili venete however, rated yet Marco Foscarini in his Della letteratura Veneziana of 1854, but also Karl Hopf 1855 as very reliable. Giammaria Mazzuchelli suspected that the first two of the four known him manuscripts were lost.