Soranzo, Giacomo
Owner Id00014373
TypePerson
GenderMale
Biographical dates - Period of existence1686 - 1761
Other InformationVenetian senator; Catalogo de' libri che saranno posti in vendita nella città di Padova (Padua, 1780); Catalogo de' libri che restano esposti alla vendita in Padova (Padua, 1781); see Frati 521; Parenti III 176. The library of Senator Giacomo Soranzo (Venice 1686-1761) was also dispersed after his death. The estate was divided between the nephews Corner della Ca' Granda living in San Maurizio, and Zorzi living in San Severo. The Corner sold their share to Canonici; Marin Zorzi I sold 220 manuscripts to Teodoro Correr and later on probably the rest. His collection of over 4,000 manuscripts is described in Vittorio Rossi, La Biblioteca manoscritta del senatore veneziano Jacopo Soranzo, in «Il libro e la stampa», I, 1907, pp. 3-8, 122-133 and Zorzi pp. 344 and 524 n. 272. Most of the Canonici manuscripts were eventually purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1817, for which see John B. Mitchell, Trevisan and Soranzo: some Canonici manuscripts from two eighteenth-century Venetian collections, «Bodleian Library Record», VIII, no. 3, 1969, pp. 125-135.
Some of the most valuable incunables (such as a copy of the Mainz Bible of 1462) of the Soranzo collection were purchased by the Parisian bookseller Giovan Claudio Molini (Florence 1724 – Paris 1812) already in 1762, a total of 37 folio volumes of great rarity for 800 zecchini, and sold in Paris. I think it is probable that the Corner family passed the most striking pieces to Canonici who acted as middle man between Corner and Molini; according to a relation of 1807 by Jacopo Morelli to the Prefect of Venice, quoted by Petrucciani pp. 36 and 38, Canonici used to collect incunables and aldines mainly for exchange purposes, in return for Bibles and manuscripts. He was in regular contact with Crevenna, Giovan Claudio Molini in Paris, the Cardinal de Brienne, as well as Maffeo Pinelli in town, Giacomo Filippo Durazzo of Genoa, Carlo Trivulzio and Gaetano Valenti Gonzaga in Milan. In 1780 and 1781 the printed books in possession of one of Soranzo's heirs, Monsignor Marco Giuseppe Corner, Bishop of Vicenza (1767-79†) were sold in Padua by the bookseller Carlo Scapin, Catalogo de’ libri che saranno posti in vendita nella città di Padova, 3 vols, [Padua, 1780]; Emanuele Antonio Cicogna, Saggio di bibliografia veneziana, Venice, Dalla tipografia di G. B. Merlo, 1847, no. 4392 and see also Giovanni Antonio Moschini, Della letteratura veneziana del secolo XVIII fino a' nostri giorni, Venice, dalla Stamperia Palese, 1806-1808, II, p. 60; Petrucciani p. 24 n. 44; p. 65 n. 20, and pp. 90-91 n. 38. As this officium does not appear in that sale catalogue, where instead another can be found, no. 56b, it follows that this officium might have been among those books selected for sale in Paris by Molini. Other incunabula formerly owned by Soranzo are now in Cambridge, Amsterdam, Oxford, and Harvard University, with Soranzo's inscriptions dating from 1729 to 1751, generally on the front endleaves, in the form «[year of purchase] di Giaco: Soranzo»; the dispersed incunable collection of Soranzo still has to be reconstructed.
Whether the book arrived to Paris with the Pesaro or the Soranzo collections, purchased from the Paduan bookseller Scapin or directly by Molin, it was subsequently acquired by the Parisian bookseller Renouard.
[edited by Leana Carbonez]
Variant NamesSoranzo, Jacopo
Other Identifierhttps://aeolus.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/collections/incunables/provenances_for_mei.xml#xpointer(//*[@id=
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Activity
Start (year)1686
End (year)1761
MARC Area Codee-it
Profession / Type of InstitutionPolitician
CharacterisationAristocracy
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