He was 71 years old (he was born on 1 January 1664), belonged to the Pisani di Santo Stefano family, a cadet branch of the family of the same name, and had travelled all the stages of the Venetian cursus honorum: sage in orders, advisor to the doge, ambassador to France.
To celebrate his election, the family commissioned Girolamo Frigimelica to build Villa Pisani in the Stra countryside (1736-1756), but the project was abandoned due to exorbitant costs, only to be resumed and completed a few years later by Francesco Maria Preti. Therefore, the villa, the construction of which be
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