AA.VV. - [A VENETIAN INHERITANCE WAR] - 1793

A VENETIAN INHERITANCE WAR: THE ZACCO AND ONIGO FAMILIES IN COURT, 1702–1793
Rare seventeenth-eighteenth-century judicial docket relating to a complex inheritance dispute among prominent Venetian families. The documentation reconstructs almost a century of baptisms, wills, successions, inheritance, and legal proceedings. At the center are the counts Zacco and the Brothers d’Onigo, with references to Padua, Vicenza, Treviso, and Venice. Printed in 1793 as a procedural memorandum, it preserves transcripts of documents dating back to 1702. A primary source of particular interest for the history of law, nobility, and Venetian genealogy in the eighteenth century.

ABSTRACT
Impression on sheet, rare judicial docket printed in 1793 within a succession dispute involving members of the Zacco and Onigo families and other parties connected to the inheritance. The volume collects and transcribes documents produced over nearly a century, from the baptism certificate of 8 June 1702 to the court records of December 1793. It includes wills, hereditary dispositions, notarial acts, citations, memoranda, ecclesiastical interventions, and judicial writings. Of particular importance is the will of Count Pietro Zacco dated 22 February 1779 and the subsequent dispute concerning the succession. More than a simple legal treatise, the docket constitutes a documentary source on patrimonial transmission and the strategies of Venetian aristocratic families on the eve of the fall of the Republic of Venice.

WHY TO BUY
HISTORICAL ORIGINAL DOCUMENT – Seventeenth-eighteenth-century judicial docket printed in 1793 and directly linked to a succession dispute actually argued in Veneto.
ALMOST A CENTURY OF FAMILY HISTORY – The transcribed acts cover the period 1702–1793 and allow reconstruction of successions, marriages, kinship, wills, and patrimonial interests.
GENEALOGY AND VENETIAN NOBILITY – Primary source for the study of the Zacco and Onigo families and their relationships with other families and figures in the Venetian milieu.
LAW AND SOCIETY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY – An interesting testimony to succession, testamentary, and judicial procedures in the last period of the Republic of Venice.

MARKET VALUE
€280–400. A niche docket of significant historical-documentary, genealogical, and legal interest. Value is supported by its antiquity, status as a primary source, the presence of numerous names, dates, and transcribed documents, and the exceptionally wide chronological span of the documentation, from 1702 to 1793.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION AND CONDITION
Pale paperback or similarly old, in plain paper, with a handwritten title in large letters on the front cover: “STAMPA AL TAGLIO.” Text mainly in Italian, with passages and phrases in Latin. Genuine copy, preserved in its simple form as a procedural docket, with irregular margins. Pages show some physiological foxing, small stains, light browning, folds, and normal signs of use and time; wear and dirt to the binding, particularly visible on the front cover. The last numbered page 84 contains acts dated 18 December 1793. In old books with a multi-century history, some imperfections may be present, not always noted in the description. This listing contains AI Visuals. Refer to the original photographs to verify the object’s actual condition. The images are an integral part of the description. Pp. 84.

FULL TITLE AND AUTHOR
Stampa al taglio.
[Veneto], 1793.
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CONTEXT AND SIGNIFICANCE
The docket belongs to the particular category of early modern court prints: texts produced to present, organize, and support the documentary arguments of the parties within judicial disputes. The phrase “Stampa al taglio” on the cover identifies the practical and forensic nature of the work, very different from a normal book intended for general circulation. The photographed documents allow you to trace concretely the construction of genealogical evidence. The docket opens with the transcription of a baptism celebrated in Vicenza on 8 June 1702 and proceeds through wills, notarial acts, patrimonial dispositions, and legal proceedings. Among the central documents is the “Testamento Co: Pietro Zacco. 1779. adi 22. Febraro. Padova,” followed by acts relating to the succession and the claims advanced by interested parties. The text also records a “Interdetto Padre Avverso alla S. a L. Nostra” dated 22 May 1779, and later the acts concerning the “Coo: Fratelli d’Onigo sopra il Testamento del qu. Co: Pietro Zacco,” dated 28 September 1779. The private succession thus emerges as a complex episode in which civil law, inheritance law, ecclesiastical authority, notaries, and magistracies continually interact.

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHOR
There is no single author identified in the literary sense. The work originates as a procedural docket and brings together transcriptions and documentary productions from different subjects: notaries, attorneys, ecclesiastical authorities, magistrates, and members of the families involved. Among the documented figures is Count Pietro Zacco, whose Padua will of 22 February 1779 constitutes one of the core elements of the dispute. Also appearing are Antonio Ignazio Porto Barbaran, Counts Fiorin Antonio and Moglioni Francesco Canonico, Pietro Fratelli d’Onigo Zacco, and numerous notaries and attorneys. This plurality of subjects makes the docket particularly interesting as a testimony to the family, patrimonial, and professional networks of the eighteenth-century Venetian aristocracy.

PRINTING HISTORY AND CIRCULATION
The volume does not appear intended as a book publication for the general public, but as a procedural print produced in a presumably limited number of copies for the needs of the dispute. This type of material normally circulated among lawyers, the parties, magistrates, and offices involved in the proceedings. The terminal date of the text is 18 December 1793, clearly indicated on page 84, placing the print at the end of 1793 or just after. Earlier dates, starting from 1702, do not represent publication dates but the dates of the historical documents reproduced in the docket. For correct cataloging I would therefore indicate 1793 as the printing date and 1702–1793 as the chronological range of the contained documentation.

BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCES
ICCU / SBN, Italian national catalogs: repertoires of judicial prints and Venetian publications of the eighteenth century.
State Archive of Padua: notarial and judicial fonds useful for the documentary reconstruction of the Zacco family and the successions cited in the docket.
State Archive of Treviso: genealogical, notarial, and patrimonial documentation relating to noble families of the Treviso area.
Genealogical and noble repertories of the Veneto: Zacco and Onigo families.
Internal sources of the copy: Baptism, Vicenza, 8 June 1702; Will of Count Pietro Zacco, Padua, 22 February 1779; acts relating to the Fratelli d’Onigo, 28 September 1779; concluding acts dated December 1793.