Albanska obitelj Ginni u povijesti Dalmacije i Istre (XVI. i XVII. st.) – prilog poznavanju komunikacija duž istočnojadranske obale

Tema rada jest obitelj Ginni (Gini, Ghini), zavičajem iz sjeverne Albanije, čiji su odvjetci u XVI. i XVII. stoljeću imali zapaženu ulogu u društvenoj i vojnoj povijesti u raznim dijelovima istočnojadranske obale. Rad se zasniva na raščlambi dosadašnjih saznanja historiografije i arhivskih vrela (poglavito iz Državnog arhiva u Zadru). Kronološkim slijedom prati se životni put i djelovanje ondje zabilježenih odvjetaka obitelji Ginni, pri čemu je težište istraživanja ponajprije usmjereno na razdoblje XVII. stoljeća, kada se brojni odvjetci obitelji Ginni bilježe u Zadru i u Istri (kao zapovjednici “naoružanih brodova” za nadzor plovnih putova na sjevernom Jadranu). Na kraju rada zaključuje se da obitelj Ginni, iako nedovoljno obrađivana u historiografiji, pripada među zapažene albanske obitelji ranoga novovjekovlja. U prilozima na kraju rada objavljuju se prijepisi oporuka mletačkih guvernadura Ivana (1636.) i Ivana Jerolima Ginnija (1672.), pohranjeni u Državnom arhivu u Zadru.
Families who originated in regions outside the East Adriatic Coast played an important role in the history of this region. Yet we know little about them and the relevant data are often scattered in studies of other topics or in diverse archival sources. This essay discusses the history of such a family, the Ginnis, who originated in northern Albania and who, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, contributed significantly to the social and military history of Eastern Adriatic. This essay uses the secondary literature and the archival sources (from the State Archives in Zadar and the State Archives in Venice) to chronologically reconstruct the lives and the careers of the Ginni family members. The study focuses on the seventeenth century as the period when the largest number of the family members is recorded in the Istrian and Dalmatian sources. As officers in the Venetian navy, they played prominent roles as commanders (captains; governors or guvernaduri) of navy formations (barche armate), controlling sea routes in North Adriatic and fought against the uskoks of Senj. The study concludes with the observation that the hitherto little known Ginnis were an important Albanian family of the Early Modern era, whose members played significant roles in the history of East Adriatic. Appendices to this article contain transcriptions of testaments of the Venetian guvernadur Ivan (1636) and Ivan Jerolim Ginni (1672), kept in the State Archives in Zadar.