Catastici Dei Traslati Di Proprieta Dei Beni Stabili

Extensive private and public documentation was produced over the course of Venetian dominion of the island of Candia, part of which is kept at the State Archives in Venice. A number of cadastral documents have also survived. This volume provides a critical analysis and full transcription of two unpublished cadastral registers kept in the Duca di Candia collection: they are the most recent known for Venetian Candia, whose records cover a chronology from 1588 to 1605 and from 1621 to 1645. The examined catastici shed light on the transfers of property, but also on places and people involved: a world populated by officials of the Venetian state, histories of properties, families, towns and villages, descriptions of buildings, urban and rural spaces and their uses. The analysis and transcription of the catastici allowed to identify elements of permanence and discontinuity in the management of urban and rural properties and to investigate the rules and practices regulating a territory as distant as crucial for Venice. At the same time, they offer a valuable snapshot of the urban and rural spatial organisation of a part of the island at the dawn of the Ottoman conquest.