Coriolano Cippico
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Coriolano Cippico (1425–1493) was a Dalmatian nobleman, landowner, civil servant, humanist and military commander from
Trogir Trogir (; historically known as Traù (from Dalmatian, Venetian and Italian: ); la, Tragurium; Ancient Greek: Τραγύριον, ''Tragyrion'' or Τραγούριον, ''Tragourion'') is a historic town and harbour on the Adriatic coast in S ...
. From 1470 to 1470 he served as galley captain under the future doge
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 1 ...
and wrote an elegant, humanist, eye-witness account of the systematic depredation of the Anatolian coast by the Venetian navy.


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1425 births 1493 deaths Dalmatian Italians People from Trogir {{Croatia-bio-stub