Said Nasone.
He was 76 years old (he was born in 1279) and his uncle had been Doge Pietro (1289-1311).
A jurist of renown, endowed with a prodigious memory, a gruff and grumpy man, he possessed a cursus honorum of all respect having been ambassador several times, then rector, podestà and avogador of Comun.
The conclave for his election was very short: the patricians were in a hurry to immediately restore a new doge to the Republic in order to extinguish the stir caused by the (alleged) conspiracy of Marin Falier and his execution.
The dogeate of Giova
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