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Born c.1395 • Chioggia • near Venice • Italy
Died 1469 • Venice • Italy
Marco Polo
Marco Polo
Italian explorer
Giovanni da Pian del Carpini
Franciscan author
Lodovico de Varthema
Italian adventurer
Odoric of Pordenone
Franciscan friar
Giovanni dei Marignolli
Italian clergyman
Pietro della Valle
Italian traveler and writer
Giorgio Manganelli
Italian author
Emilio Cecchi
Italian essayist and critic
Obadiah of Bertinoro
Italian rabbi and author
Giovanni Battista Ramusio
Italian geographer and author
Agnello Parteciaco
doge of Venice
Enrico Dandolo
doge of Venice
Foscari, portrait panel by Bastiani Lassaro, c. 1460; in the Musei Civici, Venice
Francesco Foscari
doge of Venice
Carlo Zeno
Venetian admiral
Vitale II Michiel
doge of Venice
Marino Sanudo
Italian historian [born 1466]
Falier, portrait attributed to the School of Tintoretto; in the Doges' Palace, Venice
Marin Falier
doge of Venice
Sta. Maria della Salute, Venice, by Longhena
Baldassare Longhena
Venetian architect
Vincenzo Scamozzi
Italian architect
Vettore Pisani
Venetian admiral