Pietro Mocenigo

Pietro Mocenigo
Pietro Mocenigo
Doge of Venice
In office 14 December 1474 – 23 February 1476
Preceded by	Nicolo Marcello
Succeeded by	Andrea Vendramin
Personal details
Born	1406 Venice
Died	23 February 1476

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 his country's navy, which had fallen very low after the defeat at Negropont in 1470. In 1472, he captured and destroyed Smyrna; the following year he placed Catherine Cornaro, 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 Shkodër), 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 (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.

Tomb of Pietro Mocenigo, by Tullio & Pietro Lombardo

Coat of arms of Pietro Mocenigo

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