He was 74 years old (he was born in 1399) and didn't have a great political past, except for the abundance of his donations in favour of the Republic that malicious tongues attributed to a sort of washing of his conscience for the exercise of an ignoble activity, usury.But the new doge, married to Dea Morosini, had just offered his son Giovanni as a sacrifice to his homeland, during the fall of Negroponte (1470), and had been procurator of S. Marco de supra since 12th April 1466.The celebrations for his inauguration were particularly lavish, with coins being given out not only to the people bu
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