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Born c.1395 • near Venice • Chioggia • Italy
Died 1469 • Venice • Italy
Marco Polo
Marco Polo
Italian explorer
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Giovanni da Pian del Carpini
Franciscan author
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Lodovico de Varthema
Italian adventurer
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Odoric of Pordenone
Franciscan friar
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Giovanni dei Marignolli
Italian clergyman
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Pietro della Valle
Italian traveler and writer
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Giorgio Manganelli
Italian author
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Emilio Cecchi
Italian essayist and critic
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Obadiah of Bertinoro
Italian rabbi and author
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Giovanni Battista Ramusio
Italian geographer and author
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Agnello Parteciaco
doge of Venice
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Enrico Dandolo
doge of Venice
Foscari, portrait panel by Bastiani Lassaro, c. 1460; in the Musei Civici, Venice
Francesco Foscari
doge of Venice
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Carlo Zeno
Venetian admiral
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Vitale II Michiel
doge of Venice
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Marino Sanudo
Italian historian [born 1466]
Falier, portrait attributed to the School of Tintoretto; in the Doges' Palace, Venice
Marin Falier
doge of Venice
Sta. Maria della Salute, Venice, by Longhena
Baldassare Longhena
Venetian architect
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Vincenzo Scamozzi
Italian architect
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Vettore Pisani
Venetian admiral