Landara parte che, confirmando in omnibus la parte presa in questo Cõseglio del 1497 de di 13 del mese di Nou˜ebre in materia di Marani [“This Edict Confirms the Resolution Adopted on November 13th, 1497 in the Matter of the Marannos.”]

(ITALY)

8th July

Venice

1550

Large woodcut device depicting the winged lion, emblem of the Venetian Senate. Historiated initial

Edict ordering the expulsion of the Marranos from all Venetian territory. The influx of Jewish refugees from Inquisitorial Spain and Portugal to Italian lands resulted in protest from the King and Queen of Spain. The decrees of expulsion from Venetian territory - first in 1497 and the present edict of 1550 - were the Senate’s response to Spain’s protest. “These Marannos...must leave without exception from our Territory under penalty of confiscation of their property....and they cannot ever return, at any time, in any way, under similar penalty.” Attempts by the Italians to remove Marranos from their territories were without lasting results. By the second quarter of the 16th-century, there were important communities of ex-Marranos in Ancona and Ferrara. See C. Roth, The History of the Jews of Italy (1946), pp.186-187