The Long and Varied Relationship of Andrea Mora and Anzola Davide: Concubinage, Marriage and the Authorities in the Early Modern Veneto (Section II FAMILY LIFE AND EMOTION) The Long and Varied Relationship of Andrea Mora and Anzola Davide: Concubinage, Marriage and the Authorities in the Early Modern Veneto (Section II FAMILY LIFE AND EMOTION)

The Long and Varied Relationship of Andrea Mora and Anzola Davide: Concubinage, Marriage and the Authorities in the Early Modern Veneto (Section II FAMILY LIFE AND EMOTION‪)‬

Journal of Social History 2008, Spring, 41, 3

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In 1565, Anzola Davide, a pretty young woman from the village of Lovadina, in the Trevisan countryside, went to live with a moderately successful merchant named Andrea Mora. (1) A sexual relationship developed between them rather quickly; Anzola gave birth to their first child, a son, in 1567 or '68. The couple and their children lived together, seemingly quite happily, for over ten years. In the plague year 1577, Andrea decided to marry, and chose for his wife not his concubine but rather Cattarina di Gratiani, a woman of some means from the nearby village of Vascon. (2) That marriage was not successful; Andrea left Cattarina and moved back in with Anzola almost immediately. With that move and its incumbent decision to abandon his marriage and reinvigorate his relationship with Anzola, Andrea created a situation that would anger the di Gratiani family and result in more than fifteen years of court proceedings. In 1580 the di Gratiani involved the authorities. They first brought the matter to the attention of the Bishop of Treviso; his involvement in Andrea and Anzola's life would continue until 1590. By that year, the di Gratiani had exhausted the resources of the Trevisan ecclesiastical authorities without garnering the desired result. Also by 1590, Andrea and Anzola had moved to Venice, and it was to that city that the di Gratiani took their offensive to the Holy Office. And it is there that the archival record begins. The Holy Office recorded not only their own investigation but some of the crucial moments in the preceding investigations as well.

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History
RELEASED
2008
March 22
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
50
Pages
PUBLISHER
Journal of Social History
SELLER
The Gale Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation and an affiliate of Cengage Learning, Inc.
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283.6
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