Pietro Mocenigo (1406–1476) was

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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

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; the following year he placed

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, 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

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), 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 Monument of the Doge Pietro Mocenigo 1481 :''Pietro Lombardo is also the Italian version of the name of the theologian Peter Lombard.'' Pietro Lombardo (1435–1515) was an Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect; born in Carona (Ticino), he ...

(''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 to Laura Zorzi. Staley, Edgcumbe: The dogaressas of Venice : The wives of the doges. London : T. W. Laurie
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File:Doge Pietro Mocenigo.png, Coat of arms of Pietro Mocenigo

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mocenigo, Pietro 1406 births 1476 deaths

Pietro Pietro is an Italian masculine given name. Notable people with the name include: People * Pietro I Candiano (c. 842–887), briefly the 16th Doge of Venice * Pietro Tribuno (died 912), 17th Doge of Venice, from 887 to his death * Pietro II Can ...

Republic of Venice people of the Ottoman–Venetian Wars 15th-century Doges of Venice Republic of Venice admirals Burials at Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice

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