KOTORSKI PLEMIĆ BENEDIKT PASKVALI (1704.-1790.) - ZAPOVJEDNIK MLETAČKIH PREKOMORSKIH PJEŠAČKIH POSTROJBI. (Croatian)

The life and agency of Benedict Pasquali (1704-1790), a nobleman of Kotor and general of Venetian army, are central themes of this article. In the first part of the article, the authors, based on the documents of Venetian military administration, in the first place decrees of the Provisors General of Dalmatia and (Venetian) Albania, analyse his military career from the rank of ensign, which he received entering as a boy in Venetian army, through his advancing from lieutenant to colonel, and finally his promotion into the ranks of brigadier and general of Venetian army. The comparison of Pasquali's military career and those of a generation older Venetian high officers who were by their origin from the East Adriatic coast enables us to trace clearly important changes which reached Venetian army within an interval of two generations. Namely, in an attempt of increasing control over the army, central authorities tried to diminish proportion of private ownership over military units and, in connection to that, to professionalise officer corps. Therefore, Pasquali's advancement is more conditioned by formalised rules created for that purpose by state administration, than by military exploits as was the case in careers of a generation older high officers of Dalmatia and Boka. In the second part of the article, the authors analyse composition of the military complement of overseas infantry units (Oltramarini) commanded by Pasquali in the second half of the eighteenth century, providing new and widening previous knowledge of structure of Venetian units recruited in Venetian East Adriatic dominions regarding social background, homeland origin and ethnicity of their soldiers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Il saggio si basa sulle ricerche di fonti depositate presso l'Archivio di Stato di Zara (Državni arhiv u Zadru) e presso l'Archivio di Stato di Venezia. L'interesse principale degli autori? incentrato sulla vita e la carriera militare del nobile di Cattaro Benedetto Pasquali (1704-1790), generale veneziano e comandante della fanteria d'oltremare (Fanti oltremarini) veneziana durante la seconda metà del Settecento. Nella prima parte del saggio gli autori, analizzando la sua carriera militare tentano di tracciare i cambiamenti amministrativi nell'esercito veneziano durante la seconda metà Settecento, mentre nella seconda parte si mette in risalto l'attività del Pasquali con il grado di colonello, come pure la struttura e la componente conterranea presso i soldati della sua compagnia personale. In appendice vengono riportate le trascrizioni di alcuni documenti che si riferiscono direttamente alla carriera militare del Pasquali. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Prispevek temelji na študiji virov, shranjenih v Državnem arhivu Zadra (Državni arhiv u Zadru) in v Državnem arhivu v Benetkah (Archivio di Stato di Venezia). Osrednji interes avtorjev je usmerjen v življenje in vojaško kariero kotorskega plemiča Benedikta Paskvalija (1704-1790), beneškega generala in poveljnika beneške čezmorske pehote (Fanti oltremarini) v drugi polovici 18. stoletja. V prvem delu analizirata njegovo vojaško kariero in poskušata slediti administrativnim spremembam beneške vojske v drugi polovici 18. stoletja, v drugem pa postavita v ospredje njegove aktivnosti polkovnika, kakor tudi strukturo in pripadnost njegovih zasebnih vojakov. V prilogi so prepisi nekaterih dokumentov, ki se neposredno vežejo na Paskvalijevo vojaško kariero. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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