He was 68 years old (born in Bardolino sul Garda, near Verona, in 1455) and had been procurator of St. Mark's de supra since the 12th of 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 the trade of a diplomat, which came in useful when he moved to Constantinople and made a fortune trading grain, despite the war between Venice and the Turks. Caught supplying information to Venice, he was considered a spy and imprisoned. He avoided being impaled by a s
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