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A true story of vendetta and intrigue, triumph and tragedy, exile
and repatriation, this book recounts the interwoven microhistories
of Count Girolamo Della Torre, a feudal lord with a castle and
other properties in the Friuli, and Giulia Bembo, grand-niece of
Cardinal Pietro Bembo and daughter of Gian Matteo Bembo, a powerful
Venetian senator with a distinguished career in service to the
Venetian Republic. Their marriage in the mid-sixteenth century
might be regarded as emblematic of the Venetian experience, with
the metropole at the center of a fragmented empire: a Terraferma
nobleman and the daughter of a Venetian senator, who raised their
family in far off Crete in the stato da mar, in Venice itself, and
in the Friuli and the Veneto in the stato da terra. The fortunes
and misfortunes of the nine surviving Della Torre children and
their descendants, tracked through the end of the Republic in 1797,
are likewise emblematic of a change in feudal culture from clan
solidarity to individualism and intrafamily strife, and ultimately,
redemption. Despite the efforts by both the Della Torre and the
Bembo families to preserve the patrimony through a succession of
male heirs, the last survivor in the paternal bloodline of each was
a daughter. This epic tale highlights the role of women in creating
family networks and opens a precious window into a contentious
period in which Venetian republican values clash with the deeply
rooted feudal traditions of honor and blood feuds of the mainland.
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