Marco Bembo was a Venetian diplomat and

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official in the 1260s and 1270s. Along with Pietro Zeno, he negotiated the ten-year peace treaty with the

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, signed at

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on 4 April 1268. In 1269–1270 he served as one of the castellans of Coron, during which time he dealt with the murder of a Venetian archdeacon by a Byzantine ''

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'' (possibly the half-brother of the Emperor,

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), who had been captured on a ship off the

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. In 1270–1271 he was Bailo of Constantinople, and in 1273–1274 Bailo of Negroponte. In 1275 he was sent on an embassy to

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with Giovanni Corner, and in the next year, he was sent to negotiate a new treaty with the Byzantine Emperor, along with Matteo Gradenigo. Gradenigo died during the long negotiations, and the two-year agreement was finally concluded by Bembo alone on 19 March 1277.

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Ambassadors to the Republic of Genoa Ambassadors of the Republic of Venice to the Byzantine Empire

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