The Legacy
This final chapter follows the Della Torre bloodline through the eighteenth century. Giovanni pursues has a successful career as Bishop of Veglia. Giulio marries Antonio Marchesi’s daughter Caterina in 1600, establishing the Udine line, and the family regains ownership of Palazzo Torriani. Sigismondo, head of the Gorizian line, dies the following year. The vast patrimony of both lines flows to his great-grandson, Carlo II, by right of primogeniture. Carlo’s grandson, Lucio Antonio, becomes heir to a toxic heritage of violence and entitlement and commits a litany of atrocities. Venice banishes him in 1717 and orders Palazzo Torriani to be razed to the ground. He is executed in 1723 for conspiring to murder his wife. His son, Lucio Sigismondo, recoups much of the patrimony and purchases a new Palazzo Torriani in Udine. Compiling extensive genealogies and organizing archival documents, he rewrites the family narrative and restores the good name of the Della Torre.