This section is a work in progress as I endeavour to try and document the genealogy of the Venetian Pisani. If anyone has information that can add to or amend my data, then please do get in touch. I welcome all corrections.
Below are are a few tree snapshots that I am trying to put together based on information found in various texts. I welcome more historical context or correction.
Note that this genealogy is compiled based on contemporary accounts of Venetian life and so there is likely some discrepancies - I therefore welcome corrections to the data. If you are aware of a more considered and structured genealogy of these families then please do get in touch - I would love to hear from you!!
1.1 Francesco Pisani 'dal Banco e Moretta' (1434 - 1491) m.1462 Elisabetta Pisani
1.2 Giovanni Pisani (c1440 - bef 1483) m.1466 Chiara Loredan
1.2.1 Alvise Pisani 'dal Banco' (c1468 - 1528) m. Cecilia Giustiniani, daughter of Beneto Giustiniani
1.2.1.1 NN m. June 5, 1511 Vincenzo Priuli
1.2.1.2 NN m. Zuan Corner, son of Zorzi Corner, knight and procurator.
1.2.1.3 NN m. Antonio Priuli 'dal banco'
1.2.1.4 NN m. Antonio Grimani, grandson of Doge Antonio Grimani
1.2.1.5 NN m. Zuan Capello
1.2.1.6 NN
1.2.1.8 Giovanni Pisani, Venetian ambassador to France, m. Nov 1520 Benedetta Gritti, granddaughter of Doge Andrea Gritti
1.2.1.8.1 Cardinal Luigi (Alvise) Pisani (1522-June 3, 1570 )
1.2.1.8.2 NN
1.2.1.8.3 NN
1.2.1.8.4 NN
1.2.1.8.5 NN
1.2.1.8.6 NN
1.2.1.8.7 NN
1.2.2 NN Pisani
1.2.2.1 Giovanni Pisani
* So far I have found no reference material to confirm the birth order of Alvise Pisani's children, other than the fact that Francesco was the 7th of 8 children. There were 5 daughters which means that the unknown sibling was male.
I am trying to connect the following two families with the above tree and with the wider Venetian Pisani families. The first of these families is noted as being the Pisani of Santa Stefano, who built the Palazzo Pisani there. My current train of thought is that Francesco Pisani b.1517 (below) is 1.2.2.1.1 Francesco Pisani (above). All help in proving/disproving this theory is gratefully received!
1 Francesco Pisani b.1517
1.1 Almoro Pisani
1.2 Marcantonio Pisani
1.2.1 Alvise [1] Pisani (1565-1622)
1.2.2 NN Pisani
1.2.2.1 Almoro Pisani [1] (1615-1682)
1.2.2.1.1 Alvise Vitale Pisani
1.2.2.2 Alvise Pisani [2] (1618-1679)
The second is a family that is known to be of direct descent of the above Banco e Moretta family, as Almorò III Giovanni Giuseppe Pisani was the last descendant of the family to own the Villa Pisani Bolognesi Scalabrin first commisioned by the above 1.2.1.7 Cardinal Francesco Pisani, and also connected with the Pisani di Santa Stefano who built the Palazzo Pisani. There are a couple (or more) generations missing in between these families, and so this is something that I am currently researching. This family includes the only Pisani family member to take the highest office of the republic, Doge Alvise Pisani.
1 Gianfrancesco Pisani m. Paolina Contarini
1.1 Almorò Pisani [2] (1660-1744)
1.2 Andrea Pisani (1662-1718)
1.3.1 Almorò III Luigi Pisani (1701-19.02.1766) m. Paolina Gambara
1.3.1.1 Alvise Pisani [4] (1754-1808) m. Giustiniana Pisani of S. Maria Giglio
1.3.1.1.1 Francesco Pisani
1.3.1.2.1 (First) Almorò I Luigi Pisani (1785-?)
1.3.1.2.2 Almorò II Giovanni Girolamo Pisani (1787-Dec 1812)
1.3.1.2.3 (Second) Paolina Pisani (1812-?)
1.3.1.2.4 Almorò III Giovanni Giuseppe Pisani (1815-1880) m. Cont. Evelina van Milingen
1.3.1.2.5 Caterina Maria Pisani (1819-?)
1.3.1.3 Elena Pisani
1.3.1.4 Elisabetta Pisani
1.3.1.5 Marina Pisani
1.3.2 Almorò I Pisani
1.3.3 Almorò II Pisani
1.3.4 Almorò IV Francesco Pisani (?-1780)
1.4 Carlo Pisani (?-23.05.1750)
1.5 NN Pisani
1.6 NN Pisani
* Most contemporary acounts put Alvise [4] as "a descendant" of Alvise [3], the Doge, without any clear indication of the exact relationship. Based on their birth dates being 90 years apart I originally summised that there was a three generation gap. However Pietro Longhi's "Collezione di Monografie Ilustrate - Pittori, Scultori Archetti, 1909", notes that he had four children: Almorò II known as Luigi after his Godfather Louis XIV, Almorò I, Almorò II and Almorò IV. This would mean that Alvise [4] is therefore the grandson of the doge.
Another famous Pisani patrician was Vettor Pisani, Admiral of the Venetian fleet famed for his defeat of the Genoese at the battle of Chioggia. I have found limited information on his position within the Pisani tree, however he is strongly linked through the art works of the Palazzo Pisani Moretta in particular. The ceiling of one room there is adorned with a fresco by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo which is entitled "The apotheosis of Admiral Vettor Pisani".
1 Pietro Pisani
1.1 Vettor Pisani (1324-13 August 1380)
Notes:
- Alvise [2] (1618-1679) nephew of the Alvise [1] who first built the Palazzo Pisani, elected public prosecutor of S.Marco de Supra
- His brother Almorò [1] (1615-1682) was elected Attorney de Ultra in 1656 and sole owner of the Palace
- Alvise [1] also built Palazzetto Pisani on the canal at the end of the 16th century
- Almorò [2] (1660-1744) and his brother Andrea (1662-1718), who was a sea captain, were both brothers of Alvise (Doge). He was eldest of six brothers in total and head of the family since 1703 and instigated the building of the Villa Pisani at Stra, Venice.
- Alvise Pisani [3] (Venezia, 1º gennaio 1664 – Venezia, 17 giugno 1741) DOGE OF VENICE
- Alvise [4] (1754-1808) descendant, married Giustiniana Pisani of S.Maria Giglio , sold villa to napolean to pay debts
- His brother was Francesco (1759-1836)
- Alvise [4] had a son also named Francesco
- Almorò III Giovanni Giuseppe (d. 1880, last of the santa stefano Pisani) married Evelina van Milingen
- Cardinal Francesco Pisani (1494 - June 28, 1570) first commisioned Villa Pisani Bolognesi Scalabrin in the first half of the 16th century, and Almorò III Giovanni Giuseppe was the last descendant of the Santa Stefano family to own it, therefore there is a close familial connection between these two sections. I am still looking for the link!
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