His family was later called Gradenigo.
He was elected after the deposition of Giovanni I Partecipazio in 836.
He belonged to a noble Istrian family.
He could not read or write, so documents and edicts were signed with the signum manus.
He was elected procurator of St Mark's on 7 May 830.
His dogate was characterised by the fight against the pirates that infested the waters of the Adriatic (raising the image of the Venetians as a freedom-loving people capable of restoring order), by the wars on the side of the Byzantines against the Saracens
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