The Cornaro, also known as Corner, are a patrician family in Venice, from which for centuries senior office-holders and Doges sprung.
Members include
Felicia Cornaro (died 1111), dogaressa of Venice
Andrea Cornaro (died 1323), Margrave of Bodonitsa
Marco Cornaro (c. 1286 – 1368), doge 1365-68
Luigi Cornaro (c. 1464 – 1566), who wrote treatises on dieting
Giorgio Cornaro (1452–1527), brother of Caterina Cornaro
Caterina Cornaro (1454–1510), Queen of Cyprus from 1474 to 1489
Francesco Cornaro (1476–1543), Cardinal from 1527
Marco Cornaro (1482–1524), cardinal from 1500
Cardinal Federico Baldissera Bartolomeo Cornaro (1579–1653), Patriarch of Venice in 1631-1644
Giovanni I Cornaro (1551–1629), doge from 1624
Francesco Corner (1585–1656), doge in 1656
Giovanni II Cornaro (1647–1722), doge from 1709
Laura Cornaro (d. 1739; dogaressa
Giovanni Cornaro (1720–1789), cardinal from 1778
They had eight palaces on the Grand Canal, Venice at different times, and commissioned many famous monuments and works of art, including Bernini's Ecstasy of St Theresa in the Cornaro Chapel of Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome (1652). In Greece the island of Scarpanto was their fief from the early 14th century until the Ottoman conquest.
Other Cornaros (possibly related) include:
Alvise Cornaro (1484–1566), writer
Vitsentzos Kornaros (1553–1614), Cretan poet
Elena Cornaro Piscopia (1646–1684), first woman to get a Doctor of Philosophy degree (from the University of Padua in 1678)
