The Bettera [1] family comes from Bergamo, Italy. In 1610 Pietro Bettera settled in Dubrovnik. In the course of the eighteenth century, the Bettera family positioned itself among the most prominent families of the Fraternity of St. Anthony. Its members were well established merchants, clergymen, and public servants.
Marija Bettera-Dimitri, Petar’s aunt, was a renowned writer, as was her father, Bartolomeo Prospero Bettera (*1770 - 21 July 1852). Domenico and Ruggiero, Bartolomeo’s sons were able merchants and qualified for membership in the St. Anthony fraternity, in 1726. Ruggiero’s son and nobleman of Ston, Pietro Bettera, was assigned to consular service in Izmir between 1789 and 1794. He died in Dubrovnik in 1806.