He was born in 1419 and was 67 years old, the younger brother of the previous Doge Marco.
Widower of Isabetta Soranzo , who had given him 5 children (4 girls and a boy), he was ambitious and boasted a good military and political career: he was among other things the mayor of Verona (1478) and Padua (1482), where his only son, Francesco, died; since then he grew the white beard with which he is portrayed at Villa Barbarigo in Valsanzibio (fraction of Galzignano Terme, near Padua).
He was captain general in the war of Ferrara or of the salt (1482-1484) and procurato
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