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He was 69 years old (he was born in 1405) and was elected procurator of S. Marco de citra on 4 November 1471. As a widower, he loved sleeping with two beautiful slaves (Agnes and Lena) purchased in the East.

Son-in-law of Doge Domenico Michiel. He was 30 years old (he was born in 1100). Against his election the Badoer and Dandolo families took sides, more or less openly.

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.

Grandson of the doge murdered in St. Zaccaria (864).

He was 55 years old (he was born in 1150), the son of Doge Sebastiano (1172-1178), who was rich, very rich, but also wise.

According to some, Marco Polo was born on 15 September 1254 in Venice.

In its over a thousand years, 120 Doges have alternated to the government of the Republic of San Marco who, with the institution of the Ducal Promission (1192) and from the end of the 13th century, were elected with a complicated procedure by the

The new doge was elected while he was podestà in Fermo, an important strategic point on a hill about 50 km south of Ancona.

Marco Antonio (or Marcantonio) Sabellico, whose real name was Marc'Antonio Coccia (or Coccio), was born in Vicovaro, in the province of Rome, around the year 1436, probably into a wealthy family.

He was born in Koper on 29 March 1561 to Antonio, originally from Friuli, and Elisabetta Cordonia, from Koper.

Andrea Meldola or Meldolla, renamed Schiavone because he was born in Dalmatia, had the undisputed merit of inventing a new style of Venetian Renaissance painting that saw many admirers among his colleagues, in particular he was a point of referenc