page_title: Senigaglia family
section_title: Possible Roman origin
hierarchical_section_title: Senigaglia family / Origins / Possible Roman origin
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: In colore blu il tracciato originale della via Flaminia. In colore viola, il diverticulum via Flaminia nova]]. In colore arancione la variante meridionale English: Ancient Rome Flaminia way path in blue color. Diverticulum via Flaminia nova is in violet color
context_page_description: The Senigaglia family is an Italian Jewish family, whose origins can be traced back nearly 800 years, the period between the High Middle Age and the Renaissance.
context_section_description: Another more credible theory claims a Roman origin.
  In 1215, the Fourth Council of the Lateran wrote the following:
  Canon 67. Jews and excessive Usury.
  The more the Christian religion is restrained from usurious practices, so much the more does the perfidy of the Jews grow in these matters, so that within a short time they are exhausting the resources of Christians. Wishing therefore to see that Christians are not savagely oppressed by Jews in this matter, we ordain by this synodal decree that if Jews in future, on any pretext, extort oppressive and excessive interest from Christians, then they are to be removed from contact with Christians until they have made adequate satisfaction for the immoderate burden. Christians too, if need be, shall be compelled by ecclesiastical censure, without the possibility of an appeal, to abstain from commerce with them. We enjoin upon princes not to be hostile to Christians on this account, but rather to be zealous in restraining Jews from so great oppression. We decree, under the same penalty, that Jews shall be compelled to make satisfaction to churches for tithes and offerings due to the churches, which the churches were accustomed to receive from Christians for houses and other possessions, before they passed by whatever title to the Jews, so that the churches may thus be preserved from loss. 
  During the subsequent centuries a number of Roman Jewish families left Rome on their own, or were encouraged by the Church to go to different towns or villages to establish small usury banks (with the purpose to substitute Christians in that line of business). They traveled choosing the Via Salaria or the Via Flaminia, taking along with them their tradesman abilities (with the corresponding family names, respectively): Orefice, Tessitori, Tintori, Della Seta (Goldsmith, Weaver, Dyer, Silk).
caption: Via Salaria and Via Flaminia
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