dall'Oro

dall'Oro

Padua–Treviso, 13th–20th c.

Padua, Treviso

• Nobles

The dall’Oro were a noble Venetian family, attested between Padua and Treviso from the 13th century and documented at the Civic Museum of Treviso. The House became extinct with Dejanira dall’Oro (1835–1900), the last of her line, whose marriage in 1862 to Pietro Giovanni Guerri gave rise to the compound surname Guerri dall’Oro.

The dall’Oro originate from Padua, where they are documented from 1200 under the name « da Rio ». They settled in Treviso around 1300 and took the name dall’Oro from the goldsmith’s craft they practised.

Counted among the nobles of Treviso, they held the offices of Gonfaloniers of Justice and Captains of the People in Bologna in the 15th century. In Treviso the sixteenth-century house of the dall’Oro still stands, with remnants of frescoes, on the street that bears their name, the Via dei dall’Oro. The presence of the dall’Oro in Treviso is also documented in the city’s Civic Museum, which preserves traces of their patrician activity between the 14th and 15th centuries.

The documented line spans more than three centuries, from Stefano dall’Oro (16th century) through a series of Trevisan nobles styled « Messeri » — the Martino (1528–1623), Pietro Antonio « il Logia » (b. 1578), Silvestro (b. 1604), Domenico « da Macarelli », Carlo Antonio (b. 1674), Carlo Domenico (1704–1756) and Paolo (1795–1860) — until the extinction of the house with Dejanira dall’Oro (1835–1900), the last of her family.

Motto: « Nihil ab auro potest qui aeternum non est ».

Confluence into the Guerri dall’Oro

In 1862 Dejanira married the noble Pietro Giovanni Guerri (1819–1880), an officer at the Grand-Ducal Court of Tuscany, who added his wife’s name to his own. From this union arose the House of the Guerri dall’Oro, which continues today in the Princes of Tricase.

The arms are quartered: 1st and 4th Guerri (vert, a bend argent accompanied by 6 mullets or), 2nd and 3rd dall’Oro.

The line, from Stefano dall’Oro to Léon