He was the son of the 19th doge Pietro Candiano II (932-939), who had tried everything to bequeath him the Doge's seat, but had failed.
The new doge's first act was a punitive expedition against the Patriarch of Aquileia who had raided Grado, but the episode that gave him the most lustre was the liberation of maidens kidnapped by Narentine pirates during the Marriage Feast, later to become the Festa delle Marie.
In 958, Pietro Candiano IV, greedy for power, sided against his father: the city split in two, on one side the doge's followers (pro-Byzantine) and on the
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