Sartori of Vicenza

When the Sartori arrived, the power of the bishops was declining, and the political system, through pressure from the emerging bourgeoisie supported by the party of the counts of Vicenza, was being rearticulated in a more democratic way, in the so-called "communal phase".

In this period of crisis, one of the strategies adopted by the bishops was to persuade supporters by granting fiefdoms and privileges, which did not always work out as intended; many benefited families started pursuing their own interests and vying for power.

[19] In parallel, as the patrician bourgeoisie became politically and economically empowered, they began to claim recognition as noblemen, a demand reinforced by the performance of trades that, since the Middle Ages, had been considered noble, such as those of physician, diplomat, judge, jurisconsult, and notary.

These merchant families "often contributed to replacing the patriciate of the cities and towns in which they settled, bringing relations, knowledge, but above all a more open mentality," and not infrequently excelled in artistic and cultural patronage and social beneficence.

Natural evolution was, therefore, the set of strategies designed to establish institutionalized kinship ties between families occupying strategic roles in the commercial network, such as engagements, arranged marriages (for dowry or with widows of wealthy merchants), and baptisms, especially from the mid-sixteenth century onward.

[46] The family of Leonardo, Giovanni Antonio, Benedetto Maria, Valentin and Eugenio had many lands, houses, palaces and other assets in Vicenza, Creazzo, Colzè, Monticello Conte Otto and Cavazzale throughout the 18th century.

[45] At the same time, the family of Zuanne and his son Iseppo had houses and part of the Civena Palace in Vicenza, which was designed by Andrea Palladio, as well as land and a country seat in Montemezzo, a town next door to Creazzo.

Appointed archbishop of Trento in 1987, he sought to know his people closely and was highly regarded for his fatherly care for the underprivileged, but again caused controversy for his insistent attempts to meddle in the school curriculum and other secular matters.

[64][65] Centered in Roana, a member of the Federation of Seven Communes of the Vincentian plateau (plus Asiago, Lusiana, Enego, Foza, Gallio, and Rotzo), the surrounding localities have been marked by the presence of the Sartori since the 14th century, either through property ownership or residence.

[73] According to a report of July 19, 1690 from the Venetian Provider Nicolò Erizzo to the Senate, "General Sartori has rendered fruitful service in Grahovo, showing great prudence in transmitting my instructions to the inhabitants of that plain in order that they remain faithful to the Most Serene Majesty, and has succeeded very well in dispelling the hesitation in which they were walking regarding whether or not to submit to the pasha of Herzegovina".

He defended himself with his soldiers and two peasants, while the others fled:[74]Furious was the attack, but intrepid was the resistance, and after three hours of bloody and uncertain combat, the impetus and valor of those few Christians prevailed over the enemy, though reinforced by their own infantry, who, fighting generously, opened the way for an honorable retreat, taking refuge in the Tower with the only loss of 14 of their companions, and seven other men, who with several villagers, distinguished themselves in reinforcing the former, bravely sacrificing themselves in your lordship's glorious service, not without first causing considerable havoc among the boldest Turks, among whom was the commander of Nevisigne, who was also killed.

[...] Marco Sartori, bravely sustaining with his few soldiers the aggression of the barbarians, and repelling the temerity of the boldest, fulfilling in this as in the other battles of those memorable hardships the function that was his, is credited with the merit of a good officer and faithful subject of Your Lordships, whom I recommend to reward him with a gold medal.

For Antonio Ricupero, who did his doctorate on his work, the synthesis of his thought can be expressed in the phrase "faith is the leaven of history," adding: "In his theology, we read a creative reception of the innovations of the Second Vatican Council, in which he was able to grasp the vital germs and the paths susceptible of new developments.

[86] Giambattista Pertile (1801-1884), son of Cristiano and Antonia Sartori, was a priest, doctor of theology, chaplain of the Lombardo-Venetian National Guard, professor of Italian language and literature at the Academy of Languages in Vienna, laureate professor of ecclesiastical law at the University of Pavia, where he was rector between 1846 and 1847, lecturer in international law at the University of Padua, and left several books; for his merits, he received the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus with the rank of Officer and the Order of the Crown of Italy with the rank of Commander.

[46] Jacopo Mattielli, son of Leonardo and Caterina Sartori, born in 1819, graduated as a doctor in Padua, worked in the House of Health, and during the unification wars, proved to be a fierce patriot, being exiled by the Austrian government in 1849, going to Switzerland, where he remained until 1853.

[46][94][69] Cristiano (1818-1889), son of Lorenzo and Elena Pertile, was parish priest of St. Giacomo in Lusiana, rector of St. Anthony Abbot in Valstagna, archpriest of St. Michael in Selvazzano and prebendary in Mandriola;[95][86][46] he joined the Austrian army to fight the French in the Brenta valley and, with the rank of Major, commanded a company that was part of the Walden Column.

Ordained a priest in 1860, he was also noted for his activity in social causes, being a great preacher, confessor, apostolic protonotary, canon of the Cathedral of Padua and chancellor of the diocesan presidency of the Schools of Christian Doctrine.

[97][86][94] Antonio Domenico was secretary to the bishop of Ceneda, counselor of the Academy of Philosophy at the University of Padua, treatise on theology, teacher and historian, whose masterpiece is the much cited La Storia della Federazione dei Sette Comuni (1956).

[100] It held an important regional fair and, as it was situated on the banks of the Brenta, it occupied a strategic position in the transport system of a vast commercial network that began in Trento, passed through the Seven Communes, included most of the Vicentine-Bassanese-Feltrina plain, and reached Padua and Venice.

[99] Antonio was a wealthy lumber merchant who owned half of the Miella and Vanzo mountains,[33] forests and sawmills in Primiero,[101][11] and a fortified palace in the central square of Valstagna; he received Bassano citizenship in 1592 and was admitted to the Council in 1599.

In Valstagna, he gained an infamous reputation in the early 17th century after being accused by the vicini of repeated displays of intolerable haughtiness and insolence, which caused rough friction with other influential personages, drew grudges against him and disgraced the entire community, as well as claiming to dictate laws without the ability to do so and usurping the rights of others.

On the morning of April 14, 1618, his situation became critical when, without the community's knowledge, workers brought by him from Bassano began to demolish an imposing chapel in the central square, whose frontispiece bore the image of the Lion of Saint Mark, symbol of Venetian authority, while his armed militiamen guarded it from the windows of his house.

According to Claudio Povolo, who has studied the case, it seems that Sartori managed to convince the Venetian magistrates that the license he had obtained was valid and that he intended to preserve the Lion statue, and that its destruction was the result of an accident.

[102] In 1436, Ferraro, son of Grandone of Asiago, together with his wife Bona, donated land they owned in Marchesane, Bassano district, to the convent of St. Francis in exchange for the celebration of one mass a year for the benefit of their souls.

[114][13] Walter Panciera says: Between the late medieval period and the 16th century, the wood market was the exclusive business of a handful of families from the lower Valsugana vicentina (Valstagna, Oliero) and bassanese (Primolano, Carpanè, Solagna), but not without the presence of entrepreneurs coming from other centers at the foot of the mountains, such as Grigno and Fonsazo, near Padua and Venice.

[...] The sign of its crucial importance and of its intense activity is given by the presence of groups of merchants coming from more distant areas, and then, roughly from the middle of the 17th century, by the penetration of great Venetian noble capital, from families such as the Contarini, Venier, Capello, which allowed a continuous renewal of the companies and a greater integration with the entire regional economy.

[116][113] The incompatibility between commerce and nobility, which began to gain strength in the main Italian centers in the mid-16th century and which was one of the causes of the destitution of the Vicenza group, would only become a consensual ideology much later in Bassano, which at this time was still a city beginning its political and economic affirmation.

She was praised by Domenico Villa, archpriest of Bassano, as having "rare qualities of mind and heart",[128] and by Laura Roberti-Lugo, who called her a "most cultured lady" when she dedicated to Antonietta a volume of chronicles in the form of epistles by her late husband, the literary Ambrogio Lugo, published in 1868.

[133] In the 16th century, Fiera di Primiero was situated on the border between the county of Tyrol and the Republic of Venice, and maintained an official Tyrolean office for granting customs duties and licenses for the exploitation of the extensive forests of the region.

[169] Remembered by João Spadari Adami as a "notable orator and sacred writer",[170] when he died, he was praised by the leader of the MDB bench in the Legislative Assembly as "an exceptional figure whose services to our people will never be forgotten for the much they enriched the spiritual patrimony of our state".