Monument to Giovanni Mocenigo - Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice Giovanni Ser di Mocenigo, Jr. (1409 – November 4, 1485), Pietro Mocenigo's brother, was

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from 1478 to 1485. He fought at sea against the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II and on land against

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, from whom he recaptured

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and the

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. 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.

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'', Giovanni Mocenigo is poisoned by the fictional consigliere and Council of Ten member

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, which leads to Marco Barbarigo being installed as ''doge''. This fictionalization was actually based on real-life speculations that Giovanni Mocenigo was poisoned.

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