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...
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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...
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teachers was Agostino Nifo and his friends included Pietro Bembo, Gasparo Contarini and Tommaso Giustiniani. He studied Averroes and became adept at Greek...
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Count Nicolò Bertolucci Contarini (26 September 1780 – 16 April 1849) was an Italian nobleman and amateur naturalist. He collected plants and insects...
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lecturing duties with Vincenzo Contarini [fr]. He was an "unrelievedly serious" lecturer and, by some accounts, less popular than Contarini. In 1607, his brother...
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Priuli, Doge (1618–1623) Francesco Contarini, Doge (1623–1624) Giovanni I Cornaro, Doge (1624–1630) Nicolò Contarini, Doge (1630–1631) Francesco Erizzo...
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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...
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(1504–1508) Alvise Contarini (1508) Antonio Contarini (1508–1524) Girolamo Quirino (1524–1554) Pietro Francesco Contarini [de] (1554–1555) Vincenzo Diedo (1556–1559)...
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he went to Venice, where he was hired by a powerful nobleman, Alvise Contarini, as the music tutor to his mistress, Agnese Van Uffele. She and Stradella...
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In 1480, along with Marco and Agostino Soranzo, Andrea Erizzo, Paolo Contarini and Nicolò Donà, he was chosen to administer approximately 30,000 ducats...
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