Book Title: Fasti ducales ab Anafesto I. ad Silvestrum Valerium Venetorum ducem cum eorum iconibus, insignibus, nummismatibus publicis, & privatis aere sculptis: inscriptionibus ex aula M. Consilii, ac sepulchralibus. Adiectae sunt adnotationes, ad vitam cuiusque principis, rerum, quae omissae fuerant; studio Ioannis Palatii ...

Author: Palazzi, Giovanni, b. 1640?

Image Title: Portrait of Pietro Orseolo I

Description: A portrait of Venetian Doge Pietro Orseolo I (928-987), who reigned from 976 to 978. In 978, Orseolo secretly left Venice for the abbey of Cuxa, and he spent the rest of his life in France as a monastic hermit. Pope Clement XII ratified Orseolo’s sainthood in 1731. Orseolo’s coat of arms features two dancing bears.

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