Family memoirs from Verona and Vicenza (15/th-16/th centuries)

This volume presents texts of a type that is familiar to scholars of Tuscany but is virtually unknown for the Veneto: only one of these works has been edited, and only three have been mentioned in secondary studies. Few in number, they are all of the libri di famiglia that have been uncovered from Verona and Vicenza for the Quattrocento (some extend into the early Cinquecento). They represent, in fact, nearly the entire corpus of early memorie familiari from the Veneto as a whole: scant examples from Padua and Venice have been located, and none from the other cities of the region. Even so, it has been possible to assemble this number of texts only by applying broad criteria for selection, requiring that texts exhibit the core attributes of memorie detailed domestic and personal entries, especially anagraphic data on the births, marriages and deaths of the writers’ families.