HIC ÆTERNITATI RESURRECTURUS QUIESCIT JOSEPH MARIA MARINI EX MARCHIONIBUS CASTRI NOVI AD SCRIBIAM GENERE JANUENSIUM PATRITIORUM AVITO CLARUS SUAVITATE MORUM SAPIENTIA PIETATE ET AUCTORITATE PRÆCLARUS MUNERE NEC NON HONORE MILITARIS SANCTI JOANNIS HIEROSOLYMITANI ORDINIS APUD SERENISSIMAM VENETAM REMPUBBLICAM LEGAT. CLARISSIMUS IN QUO DIUTINO MINISTERIO PRESTANTISSIMI UNDEQUAQ. VIRI PREBUIT ExEMPL. OBIIT SEX KAL. JUNII YEAR 1712 BRAND HIPPOLITUS MARINI EX PATRE NEPOS DIU LACRYMATUS POSUIT
Fra' Giuseppe Maria de Marini, belonging to an illustrious Genoese patrician family, son of Giovanni Battista, fourth Marquis of Castelnuovo Scrivia, and Maria Caterina Balbi, was received into the Order on 10 April 1673 and made his profession in Malta on 14 February 1676 in the church of the Lingua d'Italia, dedicated to Santa Caterina. In 1687 he was sent to Venice as Receiver and Ambassador of the Order to the Serenissima; and in 1706 he was appointed Lieutenant of the Grand Prior Fra' Alviano Spada.