Peoples

Pietro Gallo was born in Lissaro di Mestrino, then in the province of Vicenza and now Padua, on 27 December 1841, to Bernardo and Stefania Guerra.

Eugenio Vittoria was born in Venice on 18 March 1918. A magistral school graduate, he furthered his studies in Greek and Latin.

Tommaso Giannotti was born on 16 August 1493 in Ravenna into a bourgeois family that allowed him to study mathematics, literature and astrology in his city of origin and to continue with a university degree in 'artibus et medicinae

Having a noble and daring soul, he put his bursting energy at the service of the Risorgimento cause and was able to adapt his ideals to changing political circumstances.

Luisa Baccara was born in Venice on 14 January 1892 into a wealthy and art-loving family: her father was a reserve colonel, her mother was a very beautiful, dark-haired and vivacious woman; her sister Jolanda, a few years younger, was to become a

Antonio Canova is known throughout the world as the greatest neoclassical sculptor of the late 18th and early 19th century.

Jacopo Negretti, known as Palma il Vecchio, was born in Serina, in the Brembana Valley, around 1480.

Born in Venice into one of the oldest dynasties, Daniele Barbaro grew up in a family with excellent cultural foundations, as demonstrated by his great-uncle Ermolao Barbaro's humanistic and religious background.

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

He was 65 years old when he came to office (born November 16, 1436) and had made his fortune in trading.

He was born in 1419 and was 67 years old, the younger brother of the previous Doge Marco.

He was 63 years old when he came to office (born on the 1st of July 1532) and had a beautiful wife, Morosina Morosini.