Book Series Byzantine Research Library, vol. 11

Catastici dei traslati di proprietà dei beni stabili

The land registers of Venetian Candia (1588-1605, 1621-1645)

Emma Maglio

  • Pages: 776 p.
  • Size:170 x 240 mm
  • Language(s):English, Italian
  • Publication Year:2025


Pre-order*
  • € 66,04 EXCL. VAT RETAIL PRICE


BIO

Emma Maglio is Associate Professor of History of Architecture at the University of Naples ‘Federico II’. Her research deals with early modern urban and architectural history of Southern Italy, Greek and Mediterranean islands. She was Marie Skłodowska-Curie Post-PhD fellow at the IMS-Forth (Rethymno) and at the Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme (Aix-en-Provence) and chercheur résident at the École Nationale Supérieure de Lyon. Among her main publications, E. Maglio, Rhodes. Forme urbaine et architecture religieuse (XIVe-XVIIIe siècles), Presses Universitaires de Provence, Aix-en-Provence 2016.

Summary

Extensive private and public documentation was produced over the course of Venetian dominion of the island of Candia, part of which is kept at the State Archives in Venice. A number of cadastral documents have also survived. This volume provides a critical analysis and full transcription of two unpublished cadastral registers kept in the Duca di Candia collection: they are the most recent known for Venetian Candia, whose records cover a chronology from 1588 to 1605 and from 1621 to 1645. The examined catastici shed light on the transfers of property, but also on places and people involved: a world populated by officials of the Venetian state, histories of properties, families, towns and villages, descriptions of buildings, urban and rural spaces and their uses. The analysis and transcription of the catastici allowed to identify elements of permanence and discontinuity in the management of urban and rural properties and to investigate the rules and practices regulating a territory as distant as crucial for Venice. At the same time, they offer a valuable snapshot of the urban and rural spatial organisation of a part of the island at the dawn of the Ottoman conquest.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

INTRODUCTION

1. The historical context
1.1. The Kingdom of Candia
1.2. Venetian cadastres

2. The “Catastici dei traslati di proprietà dei beni stabili”
2.1. Structure and content
2.2. Dossiers and discrepancies
2.3. Conveyancing
2.4. Geographical coverage
2.5. Property types

3. Conclusion

4. Physical description

5. Notes on the edition

CATASTICI DEI TRASLATI DI PROPRIETÀ DEI BENI STABILI
1. Transcription mark-up
2. Register 5 – Transcriptions
3. Register 6 – Transcriptions

ANNEXES
1. Bibliography – Sitography
2. List of figures and tables

INDEXES
1. Index of locations
2. Index of names

Abstracts in Italian and Greek