He was 72 years old and had given birth to seven children.
His was a very short dogado, remembered for the beneficial rain that fell on the day of his election, which washed away the signs of the plague contagion, which, however, by the end of the month had resumed.
Already procurator of St. Mark's de supra (18 October 1478), he received the dogal insignia on the newly completed Golden Staircase.
His dogado was marked by quiet prudence. In Venetian diaristics and historiography, he took on the appearance of a paternal and almost ideal prince: every week he rece
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