Pietro Mocenigo (1406–1476) was doge of Venice from 1474 to 1476.
Pietro Mocenigo | |
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 Pietro Mocenigo | |
| Doge of Venice | |
| In office 14 December 1474 – 23 February 1476 | |
| Preceded by | Nicolo Marcello |
| Succeeded by | Andrea Vendramin |
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| Born | 3 January 1406 Venice, Republic of Venice |
| Died | 23 February 1476 Venice, Republic of Venice |
Biography
editHe was one of the greatest Venetian admirals and revived the fortunes of the Venetian navy, which had fallen very low after the defeat at the Battle of Negroponte in 1470. In 1472, he captured and destroyed Smyrna; the following year he placed Catherine Cornaro, queen of Cyprus, under Venetian protection, and, by that means, the Republic obtained possession of the island in 1475. He then defeated the Turks who were besieging Scutari (now Shkodër), but he there contracted an illness of which he died. He was interred in the Basilica di San Giovanni e Paolo, a traditional burial place of the doges, with an elaborate tomb by Pietro Lombardo (illustration).
Coriolano Cippico (Koriolan Cipiko) (1425–93), one of Mocenigo's galley commanders, wrote a description of the campaign of 1474/75, providing an eye-witness account of Christian-Ottoman confrontations in the late fifteenth century.[1] Mocenigo was married to Laura Zorzi.[2]
Gallery
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Tomb of Pietro Mocenigo, by Tullio & Pietro Lombardo -
Coat of arms of Pietro Mocenigo
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See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Cippico, Coriolano; Petkov, Kiril (2014). Kiril Petkov (ed.). The Deeds of Commander Pietro Mocenigo in Three Books (. Italica Pr. ISBN 978-1-59910-295-5.
- ^ Staley, Edgcumbe: The dogaressas of Venice : The wives of the doges. London : T. W. Laurie
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Mocenigo". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
