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Born 1400 • Italy
Died November 2, 1475 (aged 75)

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Colleoni, Bartolomeo
Bartolomeo Colleoni, bronze statue by Andrea del Verrocchio, 1483–88; in Campo di Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice.
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Niccolò Piccinino
Italian mercenary
Agnello Parteciaco
doge of Venice
Sarpi, detail of a portrait (the black spot on his face covers the scar from an unsuccessful attempt on his life in 1607); in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, Eng.
Paolo Sarpi
Italian theologian
Enrico Dandolo
doge of Venice
Andrea Doria, detail of a portrait by Sebastiano del Piombo; in the Doria Palace, Rome.
Andrea Doria
Genoese statesman
Paul V
Paul V
pope
Heribert Of Antimiano
archbishop of Milan
Casanova, Giacomo
Giacomo Casanova
Italian adventurer
Montecuccoli, portrait by an unknown artist, 1670; in the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna
Raimondo Montecuccoli
Austrian field marshal
Francesco Sforza
duke of Milan [1401–1466]
Foscari, portrait panel by Bastiani Lassaro, c. 1460; in the Musei Civici, Venice
Francesco Foscari
doge of Venice
Carlo Zeno
Venetian admiral
Vitale II Michiel
doge of Venice
Vincenzo Dandolo
Italian chemist and statesman
Castruccio Castracani
Italian condottiere
Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta
ruler of Rimini
Falier, portrait attributed to the School of Tintoretto; in the Doges' Palace, Venice
Marin Falier
doge of Venice
Biagio Marin
Italian poet
Braccio da Montone
Italian condottiere
Vettore Pisani
Venetian admiral