He was 68 years old (he was born in Bardolino sul Garda, near Verona, in 1455) and had been procurator of St. Mark's de supra since 12 April 1509.
He belonged to a new family.
He had studied philosophy in Padua and followed his grandfather on various diplomatic missions abroad, learning, among other things, several languages and precisely the trade of diplomat, which he used when he moved to Constantinople, where, despite the war between Venice and the Turks, he became very rich trading grain. Caught supplying information to Venice, he was considered a spy and imprisoned
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