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Mocenigo
The House of Mocenigo was a Venice, Venetian noble family of Lombard Dalmatian origin. Many of its members were doge of Venice, doges, politician, statesmen, and soldiers. Notable members * Tommaso Mocenigo (1343-1423), ''doge'' 1414-1423 * Pietro Mocenigo, ''doge'' from 1474 to 1476 * Giovanni Mocenigo, ''doge'' from 1478 to 1485 * Giovanni Zuane Mocenigo, (lived in 16th century) accused Giordano Bruno of blasphemy and heresy. * Luigi Mocenigo (Alvise I Mocenigo), ''doge'' from 1570 to 1577 * Tommaso Alvise Mocenigo (1583-1654), ''Capitano Generale da Mar'', (admiral) of the Venetian fleet 1648-1651, and again 1653-1654, during the Cretan War (1645–1669) (Fifth Turkish–Venetian War), commanding during two crucial engagements. He died in Venice soon after his last naval battle, and was memorialised in the church of San Lazzaro dei Mendicanti with a monument by sculptor Giuseppe Sardi (1624–1699) * Andrea Mocenigo (lived 15th-16th centuries), a senator of the republic and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pietro Mocenigo
Pietro Mocenigo (1406–1476) was doge of Venice from 1474 to 1476. He 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. Mocenigo was married t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alvise I Mocenigo
There were three Doges, and many other prominent Venetians, called Alvise Mocenigo. Alvise I Mocenigo (26 October 1507 – 4 June 1577) was doge of Venice from 1570 to 1577. An admirer of antiquities, Mocenigo was a diplomat of the Republic of Venice at the court of emperor Charles V (1545), to pope Paul IV (1557) and again at the imperial court (1564). In 1567 he was a candidate to the election as doge, but lost to Pietro Loredan. He participated again when the latter died, and was elected as doge of Venice in 1570. His dogaressa was the scholar Loredana Marcello (d. 1572). At the time of his accession, the Ottoman Empire was preparing to wage war against Venice: the conflict broke out in 1570, and Venice lost the fortresses of Nicosia and Famagusta in Cyprus. Despite the victory of the Christian coalition in the Battle of Lepanto, Venice was forced to sign an unfavorable treaty of peace with the Turks (7 March 1573), by which it recognized the loss of Cyprus. During his re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebastiano Mocenigo
Alvise III Sebastiano Mocenigo (1662–1732) was the 112th Doge of Venice from 1722 to 1732. He was also ''Provveditore Generale'' (Governor) of Venetian Dalmatia twice. Life Born into one of the most important families (the House of Mocenigo) of the Venetian aristocracy, he was a famous Doge of the Republic of Venice in the 18th century, when the power of Venice started to decline. He dedicated his political life to defending Venetian possessions in the Balkans from the Ottoman Empire. When the second Ottoman siege of Corfu occurred in 1716, he was mainly responsible for strengthening Venetian fortifications that successfully resisted the attack. In 1696 he was named '' Provveditore generale di Dalmazia'' until 1702, then again from 1717 to 1720. During his second tenure, he managed to extend Venetian Dalmatia Venetian Dalmatia ( la, Dalmatia Veneta) refers to parts of Dalmatia under the rule of the Republic of Venice, mainly from the 15th to the 18th centuries. Dalmatia was fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Mocenigo
Monument to Giovanni Mocenigo - Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice Giovanni Ser di Mocenigo, Jr. (1409 – November 4, 1485), Pietro Mocenigo's brother, was doge of Venice from 1478 to 1485. He fought at sea against the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II and on land against Ercole I d'Este, duke of Ferrara, from whom he recaptured Rovigo and the Polesine. He was interred in the Basilica di Santi Giovanni e Paolo, a traditional burial place of the doges. His dogaressa was Taddea Michiel (d. 1479), who was to be the last dogaressa to be crowned in Venice until Zilia Dandolo in 1557, almost a century later. Popular culture *In the video game ''Assassin's Creed II'', Giovanni Mocenigo is poisoned by the fictional consigliere and Council of Ten member Carlo Grimaldi, which leads to Marco Barbarigo being installed as ''doge''. This fictionalization was actually based on real-life speculations that Giovanni Mocenigo was poisoned. See also *Mocenigo family References * 1409 bir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommaso Mocenigo
Tommaso Mocenigo (1343–1423) was ''doge'' (chief magistrate) of the Republic of Venice from 1414 until his death. Biography He commanded the crusading fleet in the expedition to Nicopolis in 1396 and also won battles against the Genoese during the War of Chioggia of 1378–1381. While he was Venetian ambassador at Cremona, he was elected doge (1414), and he escaped in secret, fearing that he might be held a prisoner by Gabrino Fondolo, tyrant of that city. He made peace with the Turkish sultan, but, when hostilities broke out afresh, his fleet defeated that of the Turks at the Battle of Gallipoli. During his reign, the patriarch of Aquileia Louis of Teck formed an anti-Venetian alliance with Emperor Sigismund. Venice, under a double-sided attack, was able to launch an offensive that, in 1419-1420, conquered Udine, Cividale, Feltre, Belluno and most of Friuli from the Aquileian patriarchate. The Cadore also surrendered spontaneously. The ensuing treaty led t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cretan War (1645–1669)
The Cretan War ( el, Κρητικός Πόλεμος, tr, Girit'in Fethi), also known as the War of Candia ( it, Guerra di Candia) or the Fifth Ottoman–Venetian War, was a conflict between the Republic of Venice and her allies (chief among them the Knights of Malta, the Papal States and France) against the Ottoman Empire and the Barbary States, because it was largely fought over the island of Crete, Venice's largest and richest overseas possession. The war lasted from 1645 to 1669 and was fought in Crete, especially in the city of Candia, and in numerous naval engagements and raids around the Aegean Sea, with Dalmatia providing a secondary theater of operations. Although most of Crete was conquered by the Ottomans in the first few years of the war, the fortress of Candia (modern Heraklion), the capital of Crete, resisted successfully. Its prolonged siege, " Troy's rival" as Lord Byron called it, forced both sides to focus their attention on the supply of their respectiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alvise II Mocenigo
Alvise II Mocenigo (Luigi Mocenigo) (3 January 1628, in Venice – 6 May 1709, in Venice) was the 110th doge of Venice from 17 July 1700 until his death. See also *Mocenigo family *Alvise I Mocenigo There were three Doges, and many other prominent Venetians, called Alvise Mocenigo. Alvise I Mocenigo (26 October 1507 – 4 June 1577) was doge of Venice from 1570 to 1577. An admirer of antiquities, Mocenigo was a diplomat of the Republic of ... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Mocenigo, Alvise 02 1628 births 1709 deaths Alvise 17th-century Venetian people 18th-century Doges of Venice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lazzaro Mocenigo
Lazzaro Mocenigo (9 July 1624 - 17 July 1657) was an Italian admiral of the Republic of Venice. Biography Born in Venice (San Stae), he was the second of four sons of Giovanni di Antonio and Elena di Antonmaria Bernardo, widow of Giorgio Contarini. Mocenigo dedicated his life to the craft of arms, lived on the sea to counter Turkish power, and not without moments of heroism: for example in 1650 in Nixia above Paros when, although wounded by an arrow in his left arm and mutilated of a finger by a musket shot, he continued to fight fiercely. The outbreak of the war against the Turks, in 1645, allowed him to make a career for himself. By 1650 he was galley governor, and already in 1654, during the first Venetian expedition of the Dardanelles, he was the commander. When the admiral died and his deputy was recalled to his homeland, he found himself in command of the entire fleet (although officially under the command of the administrator Francesco Morosini, engaged in the defense of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alvise Giovanni Mocenigo
Alvise Giovanni Mocenigo (1701–1778) was doge of Venice from 1763 until his death. Political career He restricted the privileges of the clergy and, in consequence, came into bitter conflict with Pope Clement XIII. In trying to spur on the economy, he made important commercial agreements with Tripoli, Tunisia, Morocco, the Russian Empire, and with America. He died on 31 December 1778. He was married in 1739 to Pisana Cornaro (d. 1769) and in 1771 to Polissena Contarini Da Mula. See also *Mocenigo family The House of Mocenigo was a Venetian noble family of Lombard Dalmatian origin. Many of its members were doges, statesmen, and soldiers. Notable members * Tommaso Mocenigo (1343-1423), ''doge'' 1414-1423 * Pietro Mocenigo, ''doge'' from 1474 ... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Mocenigo, Alvise Giovanni 1701 births 1778 deaths Alvise 18th-century Italian people 18th-century Doges of Venice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Mocenigo
Andrea Mocenigo (after 1471 – 1542), son of Lunardo, was a Republic of Venice, Venetian Venetian Senate, senator of the republic and a historian and in 1495 protonotary apostolic. He composed a work on the League of Cambrai entitled ''Belli memorabilis Cameracensis adversus Venetos historiae libri vi'' (Venice, 1525). See also *Mocenigo family References {{DEFAULTSORT:Mocenigo, Andrea 1470s births 16th-century Venetian people 16th-century Italian nobility 1542 deaths House of Mocenigo, Andrea Apostolic pronotaries ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno (; ; la, Iordanus Brunus Nolanus; born Filippo Bruno, January or February 1548 – 17 February 1600) was an Italian philosopher, mathematician, poet, cosmological theorist, and Hermetic occultist. He is known for his cosmological theories, which conceptually extended the then novel Copernican model. He proposed that the stars were distant suns surrounded by their own planets, and he raised the possibility that these planets might foster life of their own, a cosmological position known as cosmic pluralism. He also insisted that the universe is infinite and could have no "center". While Bruno began as a Dominican friar, during his time in Geneva he embraced Calvinism. Bruno was later tried for heresy by the Roman Inquisition on charges of denial of several core Catholic doctrines, including eternal damnation, the Trinity, the divinity of Christ, the virginity of Mary, and transubstantiation. Bruno's pantheism was not taken lightly by the church, nor was his teac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Lazzaro Dei Mendicanti
San Lazzaro dei Mendicanti is an ancient church in the sestiere of Castello, Venice, northern Italy, with a facade facing a Rio of the same name. It now serves as the chapel of the Civic Hospital of Venice. History By 1224, a hospital for lepers, dedicated to St Lazarus, patron saint of those afflicted with the disease, was found adjacent to the church of San Trovaso in the sestiere of Dorsoduro. In 1262, a Leper Colony was quarantined to an island in the Lagoon, then called Isola di San Lazzaro. In 1500, funds left over after the construction of the Basilica of Santi Giovanni e Paolo, were allocated to build an adjacent leper Hospital of San Lazaro, ''Ospedale di San Lazaro e dei Mendicanti''. It was one of the four main hospitals (Ospedali Grandi) in Venice. The term ''Mendicanti'' could be derived from two sources: first in 1601, the Mendicant Friars commissioned building of this church from the architect Vincenzo Scamozzi. Second, the hospital appears to have served a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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