The Cornaro, also known as Corner, are an illustrious patrician family in Venice, from which for centuries senior office-holders and Doges sprung. Notable members are
- Marco Cornaro (c1286-1368), Doge 1365-68
- Luigi Cornaro (1464?-1566), wrote treatises on dieting
- Giorgio Cornaro (1452–1527),
- Caterina Cornaro (1454–1510), Queen of Cyprus 1474-89
- Francesco Cornaro (1476–1543), Cardinal 1527-43
- Marco Cornaro (1482-1524), Cardinal 1500-24
- Cardinal Federico Cornaro (1579–1653), Patriarch of Venice 1631-44
- Giovanni I Cornaro (1551–1629), Doge 1624-29
- Francesco Corner (1585–1656), Doge 1656
- Giovanni II Cornaro (1647–1722), Doge 1709-1722
They had 8 palaces on the Grand Canal, Venice at different times & commissioned many famous monuments and works of art, most famously Bernini's Ecstasy of St Theresa in the Cornaro Chapel of Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome (1652). In Greece the island of Scarpanto was their fief from the early 14th century until the Ottoman conquest.
Other Cornaros (possibly related) include:
- Alvise Cornaro (1484–1566), writer
- Vitsentzos Kornaros (1553–1614), Cretan poet
- Elena Cornaro Piscopia (1646–1684), first woman to get a Doctor of Philosophy degree (from the University of Padua in 1678)
Famous quotes containing the words house of and/or house:
“In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; From the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God’s being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)
“Those who sit in a glass house do wrong to throw stones about them; besides, the American glass house is rather thin, it will break easily, and the interior is anything but a gainly sight.”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)