Encyclopedia

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…

Daniel Nijs was born in 1572 in Wesel, Germany into an exiled Protestant family from what is now Belgium. He moved to Venice around 1590, employed by two of his cousins in their business, which had branches in several European countries. He quickly…

Di Malamocco, already a tribune under the doge of Giovanni Galbaio and married to a French noblewoman, had pro-Franco tendencies and was therefore elected: a reaction of the power groups hostile to the previous doge Giovanni Galbaio who was pro-…

Ferdinando Ongania was born in Venice in 1842 and, in his early twenties, began working in the bookshop/publishing house of the German Hermann Frederich Münster located on the ground floor of the Ala Napoleonica, opposite St. Mark's Basilica; a…

Son of Doge Vitale, he continued his work in the Holy Land, helping the Crusaders with his fleet and fighting the Normans. However, he also had to contend with Coloman, King of Hungary (1095-1116), who crowned himself King of Croatia and aimed to…

The first to be elected by 40 electors instead of 11, then popularly called Malipiero because he had a book published (1181) on criminal law, known as Promissione del maleficio, as if it were a promise by the doge to work to maintain public safety.…

Described as a man of great wisdom and profound piety, and a lover of peace, he committed himself to religious as well as civil and administrative reforms. With him, the election of tribunes came to an end and the era of judges and councillors began…

He seems to have belonged to the House of Badoer (from Baduario, meaning Byzantine patrician, son of Constantinople), one of the Apostolic families. He was therefore not related to previous doges of the same surname, neither to the eponymous Orso…

According to some, he was the first doge to be elected, the two previous ones being Byzantine appointments. From Heraclea, Orso came to power perhaps by military pronouncement and in the midst of turmoil of religious origin, iconoclasm raging in…

It is rectangular in shape and has an extent of 8 hectares, between the Osellino canal and the Rione Pertini. Practically at one of the entrances to the centre of Mestre, which often goes unnoticed by those who are not familiar with it, or mistaken…

He was called Otto because he was the godson of Emperor Otto III. He succeeded his father when he was just 15 years old, was born in 994 and was the fourth son of Peter II: the first, John, who had been co-regent with his father Peter II (991-1009…

The Albrizzi family was originally from Bergamo but moved to Venice in the 16th century. The family was famous for the oil trade and for having made their merchant ships available to the Republic for the battles against the Turks. What can be…