The Contarini is one of the founding families of Venice and one of the oldest families of the Italian Nobility. In total eight Doges to the Republic of...

Count Nicolò Bertolucci Contarini (26 September 1780 – 16 April 1849) was an Italian nobleman and amateur naturalist. He collected plants and insects...

Vincenzo Scamozzi (2 September 1548 – 7 August 1616) was an Italian architect and a writer on architecture, active mainly in Vicenza and Republic of Venice...

teachers was Agostino Nifo and his friends included Pietro Bembo, Gasparo Contarini and Tommaso Giustiniani. He studied Averroes and became adept at Greek...

lecturing duties with Vincenzo Contarini [fr]. He was an "unrelievedly serious" lecturer and, by some accounts, less popular than Contarini. In 1607, his brother...

Priuli, Doge (1618–1623) Francesco Contarini, Doge (1623–1624) Giovanni I Cornaro, Doge (1624–1630) Nicolò Contarini, Doge (1630–1631) Francesco Erizzo...

Vincenzo Cappello (Venice, 1469 – 19 August 1541) was a Venetian nobleman and statesman, best known as the admiral of the Venetian navy in the Battle of...

(1504–1508) Alvise Contarini (1508) Antonio Contarini (1508–1524) Girolamo Quirino (1524–1554) Pietro Francesco Contarini [de] (1554–1555) Vincenzo Diedo (1556–1559)...

In 1480, along with Marco and Agostino Soranzo, Andrea Erizzo, Paolo Contarini and Nicolò Donà, he was chosen to administer approximately 30,000 ducats...

buildings began by 1631. Likely, the diplomat Paolo Sarpi and Doge Nicolo Contarini shared the intent to link the church to an order less closely associated...