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Already a valiant and victorious captain-general da mar at the Battle of Lepanto (7 October 1571).

He was 60 years old (he was born in 1102) and his wife Troila had bore him four children.

Son of Doge Bertuccio, he was 64 years old (he was born on 28 March 1630) and an expert card player: he always carried a deck in his pocket and when he lost he burst out laughing, putting on a good face.

De notte ora ai teatri, ora al Redutto Son quel che col feral serve de lume; E pur che i paga mi so andar per tutto.

Among the particularities that distinguished the doge from all the other sovereigns there was also his headdress: in fact, he did not wear the crown but the horn, a kind of cap of Byzantine origin that took different forms in the various eras.

Before the institution of the office of doge on the Venetian lagoons, civil and military power was exercised by the Byzantine magister militum to whom the tribunes, who administered the various islands, were accountable.

To Saint Jerome - one of the patron saints of the Scuola di San Fantin, today the Ateneo Veneto - towards the end of the 16th century, Jacopo Palma il Giovane dedicated a pictorial cycle composed of eight scenes depicting the Saint's life; of thes

Among his works, the most significant are: the frescoes of the archiepiscopal palace of Udine (1726-30), the canvases for the Scuola del Carmine in Venice which represent one of his pearls (1743) and the frescoes for the residence of Carlo Filippo

Jacopo Robusti was born in Venice in 1519, nicknamed Tintoretto due to the his Baptist father’s profession.

Amongst Cadore's earliest achievements are the frescoes on the ground facade of the Fondaco dei Tedeschi in 1508-1509. At the same time, Giorgione was working on the façade on the Grand Canal.

He was 71 years old (he was born in 1343) and was affectionately called Tommasone. He was a bachelor, but with a natural daughter; he had a good military and diplomatic background.

He was an illiterate; in fact, instead of a signature he imposed the signum manus.