Urbanus VII, a tangential guestion. Me and Constantine were interested in the properties of House of Conti, but I was unable to find precisely what they owned in 1760-1770
My knowledge of the assets of the French nobility is not exhaustive and is limited to the period of the French Revolution, but I like to search, seek, look for; the sans-culottes did a great job: to be sure to confiscate to the «émigrés» all their property, they have drawn up lists complete and accurate.
You can see:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biens_de_la_branche_de_Conti
http://amisdelisleadam.org/louis-francois-joseph-conti.php
Also (even more tangent), do you know any good Italian-language sources on genealogy of Venetian House of Morosini (I searched, but my Italian leaves much to be desired despite 4 years studying it in college - I thought a native speaker would have more luck)?
I think you're interested in Morosini family in relation to the figure of Francesco Morosini (Roma 1619 - Nauplia 1694), the hero of Candia and Morea, which earned him the title "il Peloponnesiaco". But, also, he has been also the cause of the destruction of the Parthenon.
I do not consider him guilty. The blame was of the stupid Turks!
At Morosini is ordered to conquer Athens.
Only half of his men are Venetians ("schiavoni" Dalmatians included), the rest are Germans, of Milan, of Tuscany, of Malta.
The siege of Athens was a minor militarily episode, rather insignificant, in the war of Morea.
At the moment of the siege, the Turks shut themselves into the Acropolis, already transformed into a fortress, and they stored the gunpowder in the building more solid: the Parthenon.
The Venetians, to eradicate the Turkish resistance, have to blow up the powder and the bombing lasted for two days, until the explosion. 26 September 1687.
At firing the fatal shot seems to have been a German gunner of Lüneburg.
The explosion was immense, an eyewitness reports that the Acropolis looked like «a Mongibello» (the name by which time it was indicated the Sicilian volcano Etna).
The greek temple, arrived almost intact from the time of Pericles, has burned for two days and the explosion kills two or three hundred people (victims ignored of a forgotten tragedy). Since that time the Parthenon became a ruin and the Athenians were using the limestone blocks to cook and optain the lime. The blocks not smooth, that is those with bas-reliefs, were more appreciated because they absorbed the heat better.
This explains why Lord Elgin [Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin and 11th Earl of Kincardine (1766-1841)] is considered a savior of the metopes of Phidias: if he had not brought to London, would risk ending up in the pot.
Without Francesco Morosini, would not have existed even "a" Lord Elgin.
But I'm digressing. I tried to do some research on the goods and securities of the Morosini family, but it is very difficult because it is divided into several branches.
I was able to collect only some fragmentary news and some curious anecdote.
As with any "rich" family in Venice, at least in the heyday of the Republic and before the Austrian domination, it was not important to have a noble title, but be enrolled in the «Patriziato», and enrollment in the «Libro d'Oro», the register of nobles jealously guarded in the Palazzo Ducale.
The Venetian «Patriziato» was one of the three social bodies in which was divided the society of the Venetian Republic, together with the citizens and «foresti» (foreigners). The title was shortened before the name, the initials N.H. (Nobil Homo).
The «Patriziato» had exclusive possession of political power. This social body was the only one to have the privilege to sit on the «Maggior Consiglio», the highest governing body of the city. Inside the «Patriziato» (aristocracy), reigned the absolute political equality among all members. Every vote, including the Doge's vote, had the same value in the course of the voting of the «Maggior Consiglio». Every patrician carried with it a portion of that sovereignty in which he participated, along with the other members of his class. This made the Venetian patricians, in the hierarchy of nobility, of a rank equal to that of "princes of the blood" (also given the equal opportunity to rise to the royal rank of Doge).
For this reason the patricians had served well themselves and the State as a galley captains, merchants, ambassadors, governors, public officials and other forms of civil organization and military of the Republic. Being Venetian patricians was an honor for the entire European nobility and was common among princes and kings seek and obtain the title of «Nobil Homo»: Venetian patricians were, among others, the King of France, the Savoy, the Mancini, the Mazarin, the papal families Orsini and Colonna...
The origins of Morosini family are uncertain, but certainly very ancient. A legend says that Morosini had come in Laguna fleeing from Attila.
For this reason, in the «Patriziato», they belonged to the group of «Case Vecchie» (Old Houses), "corpus" of the twenty-four families most powerful and constantly engaged in the political life of the Venetian. It should also be pointed out that a tradition has called twelve of these families "apostolic" (Contarini, Tiepolo, Morosini, Michiel, Badoer, Sanudo, Gradenigo-Dolfin, Memmo, Valier, Dandolo, Polani e Barozzi) and other four "evangelical" (Giustinian, Corner, i Bragadin e Bembo): obviously you wanted to approach the history of Venice to the Church, founded on the Twelve Apostles and advocated by the Four Evangelists.
Another problem to reconstruct the assets of the family: the Venetian nobility went another peculiar character in their mercantile vocation. Contrary to the feudal nobility, in fact, the patricians in Venice based its power not on the possession of land, but the wealth of trade with the East, at the base of the economy.
For this reason the Morosini family (the principal branch Gatterburg-Morosini, and the others) is only between 1816 and 1819 that they received the title of count in the Empire of Austria, in 1890 also recognized by the Kingdom of Italy.
In 982 the twenty-fifth Doge Tribune Memmo donated the Island Memmia [now the Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, a small island located in front of Piazza San Marco; since the founding of Venice, the island was owned by the aristocratic family of Memmo] at a Benedictine monk, Giovanni Morosini. They decided to reclaim the area adjacent to the church to build a monastery (the monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore), of which he was the first abbot.
The Benedictines since then always imposed to all members of the family Morosini who entered in their monasteries the name Giovanni.
The Morosini (the branch of «dalla tressa di S. Silvestro») were owners of significant amounts of land in the countryside to the left of the Brenta river, near Bassano.
At that time they had commercial and agricultural interests in Bassano and Cartigliano, Tezze and Rossano, where they owned land, factories and a mill. The intention of the family was not only to expand the production of wool, but also to invest capital in a program of agricultural use of the land. at Cartigliano the first nucleus of the building, later took on the likeness of a large villa. The landed property, was increased from year to year for supervening acquisitions.
Morosina Valley, one of the largest located in the southern lagoon of Venice. A portion of the valley (122 fields) belonged to the family Morosini. In the Morosina Valley gathered annually 500 «corbe» of eels, about 50 tons.
Villa Morosini at Polesella, in Polesine. The area near the left bank of the Po River, about a mile away from the center of Polegate, perhaps had a manor house from the fifteenth century. The construction of a residence for the holiday dates back to the sixteenth century, when the Venetian Pietro Morosini bought the landed property of the family Graziadei of Ferrara, deciding to expand the existing structure to transform it into a real villa.
The villa was inhabited by Francesco Morosini "il Peloponnesiaco" («della Sbarra di Santo Stefano»); at his victory over the Turks was dedicated the chapel set up in 1690 in one of the corner towers included in the boundary wall.
In 1503 Venice gives at Pandolfo IV Malatesta (1475-1534), surnamed «Pandolfaccio», Cittadella (military outpost, service center and market near Padua), in exchange for his rights about Rimini. A few years after the Malatesta donated (a feudal investiture) the place of Sant'Anna to Morosini with every privilege and power on it. Thus, the various income from rights of cultivation, hunting, fishing, cutting of forests, etc. of that place became the exclusive prerogative of the noble Venetian family.
From this nevralgic place, that the Morosini family has elected to headquarters, carried out a campaign of purchases of properties in all the neighboring countries since the end of the fifteenth century that will take them in a few years to be one of the main landowners patrician families of the place.
Sanvincenti (in Croatian Svetvinčenat) is a town in Croatia located in the south central part of Istria, important for the Benedictine abbey of San Vincenzo (IX-X century, from which comes the toponym of the town). The feud turns out to be of the Morosini family («della Sbarra di San Giovanni in Laterano») and of the Dukes of Austria, at least until 1523, the date that marks the final sale of the share of the latter to the Venetian family.
In 1532 Peter and Andrea Morosini have promoted the restructuring of the Castle, which will become the residence of Andrea, followed by the construction of the new parish church.
Andrea Morosini had two daughters, Elizabeth and Angela, and a son, Peter, who will die prematurely. Elizabeth, called Morosina, and Angela married, on the same day, the two brothers Marino and Almorò Grimani of the branch of San Luca. The Castle takes of the denomination of «Castello Grimani».
The Dogaressa of Venice Morosina Morosini (1545-1614), wife of the Doge Marino Grimani (1532-1605), is remembered for her own coronation as official consort conducted with enormous pomp and ceremony in 1597, when she got the honor of the Papal Golden Rose by Pope Clement VII in the Patriarchal Cathedral Basilica of Saint Mark [see P. G. Molmenti, La dogaressa di Venezia, Torino, 1884, pp. 289-303].
Silba is an island located 29 miles NW of Zara. Silba is the Croatian name of the island, while the old one is Selbo and the Italian is Selve. Is it no know how and when the island became the property of the Morosini family.
Because of the distance, it was difficult for Morosini hold the island and receive products due, so in 1770 it was agreed with the inhabitants of Silba the annual payment of 2.000 «Lire Veneziane». Each family paid in proportion to the land owned and the Silbani called this rent «il Quarto» (The Fourth) because it corresponded to the fourth of the goods produced from the island.
The family retained ownership of the island until the first quarter of the nineteenth century.
In 1838 the Morosini sold the island for 28.500 «Lire Austriache» to Marko Ragusin of Lussinpiccolo, who had returned rich from the Americas.

[1] The Parthenon in 1667: you can see the minaret built by the Mohammedans.
[2] The Parthenon with a small mosque in its interior. Plan and drawing of north side after Morosini's bombardment of the building.
The Ottomans generally respected the ancient monuments in their territories, and did not destroy the antiquities of Athens, though it no had an actual program to protect them. However, in times of war, were willing to demolish it in order to procure material for walls and fortifications.