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He belonged to one of the 12 so-called Apostolic families. He is remembered above all for the first impressive expedition of the Venetians to the Holy Land, with about 200 ships under the command of his son Giovanni, made with the aim of driving out…

Son of Doge Dominic (1118-30). The Dogado of Vitale II went through critical years for Venetian politics. In the West, Emperor Frederick Barbarossa was meditating to dominate the Italic Communes and take possession of the Dogado, claiming that the…

He owes his love for music to his violinist father Giovanni Battista who played for some years in the chapel of San Marco; he seems to have been a pupil of the musician Giovanni Legrenzi. Due to his poor health, he approached the church and was…

The history of Vogalonga is a recent history, a confirmation that the history of Venice does not stop at 1797. It all stems from a friendly regatta on mascarete on the day of San Martino in 1974. In those years, fans of Venetian rowing were few and…

The importance of this family was widely described by the Paduan Giacomo Zabarella in his writing "The magnificent, that is, the masked virtue where all the sublime grandeurs of the Serenissima Republic of Venice and of the noble house of Zani are…