摘要：Private legal documents, among which last wills constitute a significant part, represent valuable source for investigation of social life, material culture and piety of common people. The most common reason for recording of last wills, which were in the period of the Venetian rule written by notary Bartolomeo Gervasio, was testator’s intention to distribute his or her wealth among heirs, as well as to prepare his or her »troubled« soul to the God before the inevitable death. Testaments reveal not only relations within a family and hereditary rights, but from these last wills one can easily identify testator’s religious motifs. Consequently, each last will / testament contains invocation, followed by an expressed testator’s hope for the salvation at the time of his or her departure from this world. Structure and style of writing of these testaments reflect education and expertize of notaries who recorded them. Finally, a thorough analysis and interpretation of these documents allows us to reveal various aspects of social, material and religious reality in Labin during the Venetian rule.
关键词：Labin; early modern times; notary; testaments; Bartolomeo Gervasio.
