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(de) Giorgi
de Georgiis
De Giorgi
Juric/Jurici
Đurđević
Georgi
Georgio
Zorzi
Žurgović
(de) Giorgi; de Georgiis; De Giorgi; Juric/Jurici; Đurđević; Georgi; Georgio; Zorzi; Žurgović;
Country	Republic of Ragusa; Republic of Venice;
Estate(s)	Palazzo Giorgi, Dubrovnik
Cadet branches	House of Giorgi-Bona; House of Giorgi-Pozza;

The Giorgi or Zorzi were a noble family of the Republic of Venice and the Republic of Ragusa.^[1]^{: I: 54}^[2]

History

Tradition links the Zorzi to the origins of the city of Venice. In 1817, Antonio Longo wrote that they came from Moravia and Silesia; entered Italy in 411 AD and took up residence at Pavia; and after the invasion of Attila in 453 AD were among the founders of Venice.^[3]

The Almanach de Gotha^[4] enumerates it among the eleven oldest native families of the Republic of Ragusa,^[5]^[6] and members of the family were still living in the city in the 19th century.^[7]

The first documented mention of the family dates from the tenth century: in 964 Gregorio di Andrea de Georgii was bishop of the island of San Pietro di Castello, formerly known as Olivolo, in the Venetian Lagoon.^[2]^[8]

It has been suggested that the Giorgi came to Ragusa either from Rome^[9] or from Kotor.^[1]^{: I: 58}

The island of Curzola has been a fiefdom of the family since 1254.^[10]

The Ragusan branches

Over the centuries, the Giorgi were divided into several branches in Italy and abroad, merging with other noble families of Dubrovnik and continental Europe. A branch of the family joined its name and arms to those of the Bona family, creating a new branch as Giorgi-Bona.^[1]^{: III: 71}

The Giorgi were among the important families of the Republic of Ragusa, serving in the 14th and 15th centuries in 6.50% of all major public offices.^[11]^: 51 Between 1440 and 1640 the Giorgi had 109 members of the Great Council, representing 4.95% of the total.^[11]^: 54 In the two hundred years, they also count for 203 senators (6.21%), 163 rectors of the Republic (6.84%),^[11]^: 60 173 representatives in the minor council (6.33%) and 41 guardians of justice (4.99%).

People

Members of the family include:

Marino di Matteo Zorzi (1231–1312), governor of the Republic of Ragusa ^{[citation needed]}, later Doge of Venice^[2]
Niccolò di Francesco Zorzi (15th century), Venetian ambassador to Pope Martin V^[2]
Marco di Bertucci Zorzi (mid-15th century), Venetian military commander and ambassador to France^[2]
Giorgio di Giovanni Zorzi, born 1582, Venetian ambassador to France and Poland^[2]
Pier Antonio Zorzi [it] (1745–1803), 5th Archbishop of Udine, cardinal^[2]
Ennio De Giorgi (1928–1996), Italian mathematician

The Ragusan poet Ignjat Đurđević (Ignazio Giorgi) did not belong to this family, but to another ennobled a few years before his birth in 1675.^[12]^: 145

Gallery

Maria Giorgi-Pozza tomb, Dubrovnik
Palazzo Giorgi, Dubrovnik
Nineteenth-century copper engraving of Marino Zorzi


Various coats-of-arms of the family. The last one is the branch of House of Bona-Giorgi.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Konstantin Jireček (1984–1986) L'eredità di Roma nelle città della Dalmazia durante il medioevo (in Italian). Atti e Memorie della Società dalmata di storia patria, volumes IX, X, XI. Roma: Società Dalmata di Storia Patria.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Zorzi (in Italian). Enciclopedie online. Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed February 2017.
^ Antonio Longo (1817). Dell'origine e provenienza in Venezia de' cittadini originarj (in Italian). Venexia: Tipografia Gasali.
^ Almanach de Gotha 1763/1785 bis 1944 by Justus Perthes Verlag
^ Ragusan Archives Document: "Speculum Maioris Consilii Rectores", showed 4397 rectors elected between September 1440 to June 1806; 2764, (63 %) were from eleven "old patrician" families: Gozze, de Bona, de Caboga, Cerva, de Ghetaldi,de Giorgi(slavic Juric/Jurici), Gradi, Pozza, Saraca, Sorgo and Zamanya. A list of Ragusa's governing bodies in 1802 showed 3 that 6 of the 8 Minor Council, and 15 of 20 Grand Council members were from the same 11 families.
^ Helias and Blasius De Radoano: Ragusa Merchants in the Second Half of the 14th Century by Barisa Krekic." In February 1378 Blasius and ser Lucas de Bona had appointed two Venetians and a Ragusan" page 408
^ Dubrovnik Under French Rule (1810–1814) by Stjepan Cosic/ hrcak.srce.hr/file/12648."Court of First Instance in Dubrovnik, over which Niko Pozza presided.In Dubrovnik, Ston, and Cavtat, Ivan Bona, Frano Liepopilli, and Nikola Facenda operated as justices of the peace" (page 113).
^ Mario Brunetti (1937). Zorzi (in Italian). Enciclopedia Italiana. Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed February 2017.
^ Giorgio Gozzi, La libera e sovrana Repubblica di Ragusa 634-1814, Volpe Editore, Roma 1981
^ Antonio Renato Toniolo, Umberto Nani, B. F. T., Giuseppe Praga, Adolfo Venturi (1931). Dalmazia (in Italian). Enciclopedia Italiana. Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed May 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c Zdenko Zlatar (2002). "Huius... est omnis Rei Publicae potestas": Dubrovnik's patrician houses and their participation in power (1440–1640). Dubrovnik Annals (6): 45–65.
^ Šime Ljubić (Simeone Gliubich) (1856). Dizionario biografico degli uomini illustri della Dalmazia (in Italian). Vienna: Rod. Lechner.