A hundred thousand ducats

…asked to go home. On the way the fleet met a terrible storm; the ships were wrecked and only a small number of refugees were saved. The de Franceschi were among the survivors, and at Venice were admitted to the «veneta cittadinanza originaria». , key: true , y: 1716 , t: A hundred thousand ducats , w: On 16 July, «causa gli urgenti bisogni della Serenissima», the brothers Carlo, Giovanni Battista, Costantino and Domenico made a donation of 100,000 ducats. The Senate raised the family from the Order of Secretaries to the Sovrano Ordine Patrizio and inscribed it in the Libro d'Oro of Venetian nobility. , key: true , y: 1774…

…e' Franceschi had served as secretary from 1519 before his election to the Grand Chancellorship. Two men of the name, a generation apart, inside the most secret organ of the Venetian state. He belongs to the Candia and Seghetto branch: the armorial names him in the same entry as the four brothers who gave the Republic a hundred thousand ducats in 1716. , note: Blasonario Giuliano, «Franceschi (de) — Seghetto, Capodistria, Umago». , id: francesco-pola , name: Francesco de Franceschi , dates: fl. 1424 , where: Pola , field: Church , text: Bishop of Pola in 1424 — the earliest office-holder of the name recorded anywhere in Istria, and a century before the Chancel…