Donà family

{{Short description|Venetian noble family}}

{{Infobox family

| name = 45px
House of Donà

| coat_of_arms = Coat of Arms of the House of Donà.svg

| coat_of_arms_size = 185px

| coat_of_arms_caption = Arms of the Donà dalle Rose
Blazon: Argent, two bars Gules, in chief three roses barbed and seeded of the Second

| type = Noble House

| origin = {{bulleted list|Romagna, {{flag|Emilia-Romagna}}|Altinum, {{flag|Veneto}}}}

| founded = 12th century

| founder =

| final_ruler =

| members =

| connected_members =

| other_families =

| distinctions =

| traditions = Roman Catholicism

| motto =

| motto_lang =

| motto_trans =

| estate =

| country = {{flag|Republic of Venice}}

| early_forms = Donato{{Sfn|Davis|1975|p=xi}}
Donatus
Donati

| etymology = from the diminutive of the masculine given name Donatus

| titles = {{bulletedlist|Doge of Venice| Procurator of Saint Mark|Patrician of Venice (hereditary)|Archbishop of Crete|various other bishoprics|Ambassador of the Republic of Venice in Constantinople|various other ambassadorships|Podestà of Venice|Governor (respectively) of Ravenna, Brescia, Cremona, and Crete}}

| styles = Serene Highness

| cadet_branches = {{bulletedlist|dalle Rose|dalle Trezze (extinct)|many other minor now-extinct branches}}

}}

File:Coat of Arms of the House of Donà della Trezze.svg

The House of Donà are an old patrician family of Venice which produced three doges of Venice. The family has existed since at least the late twelfth century.{{Sfn|Davis|1975|p=xiii}} Until the sixteenth century, the family were merchants.{{Cite journal |last=Brucker |first=Gene A. |date=April 1976 |title=Review: A Venetian Family and Its Fortune 1500–1900: The Donà and the Conservation of Their Wealth. |url=https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-lookup/doi/10.1086/ahr/81.2.413-a |journal=The American Historical Review |language=en |volume=81 |issue=2 |pages=413 |doi=10.1086/ahr/81.2.413-a |issn=1937-5239}} During that period, they bought land, which supported the family through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.{{Sfn|Davis|1975|p=37}} Around and throughout the nineteenth century, the family's wealth was significantly diminished due to the influences of the French Revolution and industrialisation.{{Sfn|Davis|1975|p=121}} The family is still surviving, and produced a number of business people in the twentieth century.{{Sfn|Davis|1975|p=171}}