He was 45 years old, having been born in the year 842, and was the first doge belonging to a new family.
He was considered very religious, wise and generous, energetic and combative.
He boasted Roman descent and was a mediator between the different political factions that divided the great Venetian families.
A few months after his election, the young and decisive doge personally led an expedition against Pagania, from where the attacks of the Narentine pirates infesting the waters of the Adriatic Sea originated. He wanted to solve once and for all o
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