Giustiniani is the name of an important family Italian originating in Venice installed then with Genoa and which had representatives, at various times, with Naples, in Corsica and in several islands of the the Mediterranean.

The members most representative of the Venetian line

• Lorenzo Giustiniani (1380 - 1465), Laurentius Justinianus in the calendar of the saints of the Roman Catholic church, entered very young person the Congregation of saint Georges de Alga and became, in 1433, Supérieur of this kind. About at the same time, it was made bishop of Venice by the pope Eugene IV. Its episcopate was marked by a considerable activity for promotion and the Réforme of the Church. <-to promote and reform - > When Nicolas V moved the patriarchate Grado in Venice, Giustiniani was high with this row which it occupied during 15 years. He died the January 8th 1465. He was canonized by Alexandre VIII. The day of its festival was fixed by Innocent XII the September 5th, the birthday day of its accession to the episcopate. Its works, completely free from literary qualities, consist of sermons, letters and treaties of asceticism and were often republished. The best edition is that of the Bénédictin P.N.A. Giustiniani in 2 volumes made in Venice in 1751. Its biography was written by Bernard Giustiniani, Scipio Maffei and also by the Bollandistes.

• Leonardo Giustiniani (1388 - 1446), brother of the precedent, was during a few years senator in Venice and in 1443 it held the load of procurator of Saint-Marc. It translated into Italian the Vies of Cinna and Lucullus of Plutarque. He was the author of some poetries, of the strambotti and canzonettias as well as works rhetorics in prose. Some of the popular songs that it put in music are known under the name of Giustiniani .
• Bernardo Giustiniani (1408 - 1489), wire of Leonardo, was a pupil of Guarino da Verona and George Trebizond, and was very young senator de Venise. It fulfills several important diplomatic missions at the same time in France, near Louis XI and in Rome, near Pie II, Paul II and Sixte IV. In 1485, it belonged to the Conseil of the Ten. Its speeches and its letters were published in 1492. But, without any doubt, the work which made known to him glory, is its history of Venice, Of rebusque origin urbis Venetiarum ab ipsa gestis historia (1492), translated into Italian by Domenichi in 1545. At the time, it was undoubtedly the best work which had dealt with this subject. One finds it in the vol. 1 of Graevius.
• Pietro Giustiniani, also senator, lived at the 16th century and wrote a Historia rerum Venetarum making following that of Bernardo. He is also the author of the chronicles Of gestis $petri Mocenigi and Of bello Venetorum cum Carolo VIII . This last work was the subject of a reprinting in the Script. the RER. Ital. vol. xxi.

The members most representative of the branch génoise

• Paolo Giustiniani, of Moniglia (1444 - 1502), a Dominican , was, extremely young, prior of their convent in Genoa. He excelled in the sermons and its talents were recognized by the successive popes who did it: Master of crowned palate (in 1489 and 1494, under Innocent VIII); general Inquisiteur of all the possessions génoises, apostolic police chief against the heretics; finally, bishop of Tap-holes and Legate in Hungary. He was the author of many comments of the Bible, lost today, which one says that they were of a great scholarship.
• Agostino Giustiniani (1470 - 1536) was born in Genoa and spent a few years to Valence. He joined in 1487 the order of Dominican and devotes himself intensely to the study of the Greek, Hebrew, the chaldéen and Arabic. In 1514, it starts to work on a polyglot Bible (in several languages). As a Corsica bishop of Nebbio in , it takes share with the first work of the Concile of Lateran (1516 - 1517). It leaves its diocese and, finally, joined France where it becomes one protected from François Ier and occupies an Arabic and Hebrew pulpit at the University of Paris. After five years of absence, during which he visits England and the Netherlands and fact knowledge of Erasme and Thomas More, he turns over to Nebbio about 1522 and remains there, in a quasi continuous way, until 1536. At the time of a voyage towards Genoa, he perishes at sea at the time of a storm. He had a very beautiful library which he bequeathed to the République of Genoa. Of its project of polyglot Bible , only the Psalms were published ( Psalterium Hebraeum, Graecum, Arabicum, and Chaldaicum , Genoa, 1516). Beside the Hebrew text, translation of the Seventy, comments araméens and of an Arabic version, one finds there the translation of the Vulgate, a new Latin translation of the author, a Latin translation since the araméen and a whole of comments. Giustiniani printed 2000 specimens on its own account, including fifty in Vélin for the sovereigns of Europe or Asia. The result of the sale of its work did not encourage it to make in the same way for New Testament as it had also prepared for the edition. In addition to one edition of the Book of Job containing the original text, the Vulgate and a new translation, it published off a Latin version of Nevochim Maimonides of More ( Director dubitantium aut perplexorum , 1520) and also published in Latin the Aureus libellus of Aeneas Platonicus and the Timaeus of Chalcidius. Its annals of Genoa ( Castigatissimi Annali di Genova ) were published after its death in 1537.

Other remarkable members

• Orso Giustiniani, Venetian admiral in 1463.
• Pompeio Giustiniani (1569 - 1616), originating in Corsica, was used under the orders of Alexandre Farnese and the marquis of Spinola for the Netherlands where it lost an arm. Because of its prosthesis, it is known under the name of Arm wrestling . It defended the Crete against the Turks. It was killed in a forwarding in the the Friuli. It left Italian a personal version of the war of Flandres which was then published in a Latin translation ( Bellum Belgicum , Antwerp, 1609) carried out by Gamburini.
• Giovanni Giustiniani (1513 - 1556), born with Héraklion, translator of Andria and Eunuchus of Terence, In Verrem of Cicéron and a part (chapter viii) of Énéide of Virgile.
• Vicenzo Giustiniani, born with Scio in 1519, died in 1582, which was general of Dominican in 1558 and took part in the Concile of Thirty.
• Orsatto Giustiniani (1538-1603), Venetian senator, translator of Oedipus king of Sophocle and author of a whole of Rhyme to the manner of Pétrarque. He is regarded as one of the last representatives of the Italian traditional school.
• Geronimo Giustiniani, a génois, lived in the last half of the 16th century. It translated Alceste of Euripide and three of the parts of Sophocle and wrote two tragedies Jephte and Christo in Impassions .
• Vincenzo Giustiniani, which, at the beginning of the 17th century, built the Giustiniani palate in Rome and constituted the collection which is always associated with its name. The collection was moved in Paris in 1807 when it was mainly dispersed. In 1815, which remained about it, approximately 170 tables, was bought by the king of Prussia and was sent to Berlin where it constitutes a share of the royal museum.
• Orazio Giustiniani, cardinal, born in Genoa, died in Rome in 1649, which was cardinal of Saint-Onuphre, Large penitentiary and librarian of the Vatican.
• Marcantonio Giustinian, Doge de Venise of 1684 with 1688, date of its death. It entered the European league against the sultan Mahomet IV; its general, Monsini, conquer the Peloponnese and the Dalmatie.
• Laurentio Giustiniani, born in 1761, died in 1824, librarian in Naples as from 1803.

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