Calbo later on Calbo-Crotta is an Italian mercantile family originating from Padua and then established in Venice starting the year 891. It became part of the Great Council of Venice (Italian: Maggior Consiglio) after the battle of Genoa in 1310. They were given nobility title in 1817.
Major members of the family include
Luigi Calbo, an administrator in the kingdom of Negroponte and who died during the conquests of Mehmed the Conqueror (Mehmed II) in 1470
Antonio Calbo, a councilor in Kingdom of Candia in 1539, and fought for the withdrawals of the Turkish occupation
Francesco Calbo (1760-1827), son of Giovanni Marco and Lucrezia Crotta. He added the name Crotta to the family known after that as Calbo-Crotta. He was a finance minister under the Austrian rule that became the Austrian Empire in 1818. He died without inheritors.
