He had been captain general da mar, bailo in Tyre, podestà in Bologna and Padua, count of Ossero.
During his dogado the conflict with Ancona (1281), which had erupted 10 years earlier, came to an end and the Republic assumed the role of great power that had lasted until the death of Muhammad II the Conqueror (1481).
Under Giovanni Dandolo drastic changes were enacted concerning the organisation of navigation and trade and new rules to support the unique constitutional structure of the city that crystallised until the end of the aristocratic Republic (1297-1797).
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