Note 102 — CARLO GOZZI.

At the time when Gozzi wrote, this was the eldest branch, called Di San Fantin. Two remote branches, of S. Apollinare and San Polo, survived. They descended from a collateral ancestor, Girolamo Tiepolo, who died in 1516. The branch of S. Polo expired in 1820. See Litta, Famiglie Celebri. The Tiepolo family was one of the oldest and most illustrious among the patrician houses. It ranked with the Case vecchie, as distinguished from the Case nuove. These Case vecchie were also called tribunizie, from having exercised the highest offices of State at the time when Venice was still governed by tribunes, and before the foundation of the Dogeship. Of these oldest and purest noble houses there were twenty-four. The closing of the Grand Council in 1297, which determined the oligarchical character of the Venetian government, led to an attempted revolution in the State by Baiamonte Tiepolo. Tiepolo's conspiracy was really an effort in the interests of the old aristocracy to throw off the yoke which novi homines were fixing on the commonwealth. An excellent essay on Baiamonte Tiepolo will be found in H. F. Brown's Venetian Studies. I may add to this note that the Gozzi had previously intermarried with the Corner, Zuccato, Donà, and Morosini, patrician houses of high respectability.