Venice - Notable People

Notable People

For people from Venice, see People from Venice. Others closely associated with the city include:

  • Enrico Dandolo (c. 1107, 1205), Doge of Venice from 1192 to his death. He played a direct role in the Sack of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade.
  • Marco Polo (15 September 1254 – 8 January 1324), trader and explorer, one of the first Westerners to travel the Silk Road to China. While a prisoner in Genoa, he dictated in the tale of his travels known as Il Milione (The Travels of Marco Polo).
  • Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430–1516), a Renaissance painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family of painters.
  • Aldus Manutius (1449–1515), one of the most important printers in history.
  • Pietro Bembo (20 May 1470 – 18 January 1547), cardinal and scholar.
  • Lorenzo Lotto (c.1480 – Loreto, 1556), painter, draughtsman, and illustrator, traditionally placed in the Venetian school.
  • Sebastian Cabot (c. 1484–1557, or soon after), explorer.
  • Pellegrino Ernetti, Catholic priest and exorcist
  • Titian (c. 1488–90 – 27 August 1576), leader of the 16th century Venetian school of the Italian Renaissance (he was born in Pieve di Cadore).
  • Sebastiano Venier, (c. 1496 – 3 March 1578), Doge of Venice from 11 June 1577 to 1578.
  • Andrea Gabrieli (c.1510–1586), Italian composer and organist at St Mark's Basilica
  • Tintoretto (1518 – 31 May 1594), probably the last great painter of Italian Renaissance.
  • Veronica Franco (1546–1591), poet and courtesan during the Renaissance
  • Giovanni Gabrieli (between 1554 and 1557–1612), composer and organist at St Mark's Basilica
  • Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643), composer and director of music at San Marco
  • Leon Modena (1571–1648) preacher, author, poet, active in the Venetian ghetto and beyond
  • Marco Antonio Bragadin (d.1571), general, flayed alive by the Turks after a fierce resistance during the siege of Famagusta
  • Baldassare Longhena (1598 – 18 February 1682), one of the greatest exponents of Baroque architecture.
  • Francesco Cavalli (14 February 1602 – 14 January 1676), a baroque composer
  • Pietro Cesare Alberti (1608–1655), considered the first Italian-American, arriving in New Amsterdam in 1635.
  • Tomaso Albinoni (8 June 1671 – 17 January 1751), a baroque composer
  • Rosalba Carriera (7 October 1675 – 15 April 1757), known for her pastel works.
  • Antonio Vivaldi (4 March 1678, 28 July (or 27), 1741, Vienna), famous composer and violinist of the Baroque Era
  • Pietro Guarneri (14 April 1695 – 7 April 1762) left Cremona in 1718, settled in Venice. "Peter of Venice" from the family of great luthiers.
  • Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (5 March 1696 – 27 March 1770), the last "Grand Manner" fresco painter from the Venetian Republic.
  • Canaletto (28 October 1697 – 19 April 1768), famous for his landscapes or vedute of Venice, but not only.
  • Carlo Goldoni (25 February 1707 – 6 February 1793). Along with Pirandello, Goldoni is probably the most famous name in Italian theatre, in his country and abroad.
  • Frederick Rolfe (22 July 1860 – 25 October 1913), English author of the Venetian novel The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole.
  • Carlo Gozzi (13 December 1720 – 4 April 1806), an excellent dramatist of 18th century.
  • Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798), in Dux, Bohemia, (now Duchcov, Czech Republic), a famous Venetian adventurer, writer and womanizer.
  • Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749–1838), opera librettist and poet. He wrote the librettos for 28 operas by 11 composers, including Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
  • Virgilio Ranzato (7 May 1883 – 20 April 1937), Composer.
  • Carlo Scarpa (2 June 1906 – 1978, Sendai, Japan), an architect with a profound understanding of materials.
  • Emilio Vedova (9 August 1919 – 25 October 2006), one of the most important modern painters of Italy
  • Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia (5 June 1646 – 26 July 1684), the first woman in the world to receive a doctorate degree.
  • Bruno Maderna (21 April 1920 – 13 November 1973), an Italian-German orchestra director and 20th century music composer.
  • Luigi Nono (29 January 1924 – 8 May 1990), a leading composer of instrumental and electronic music.
  • Ludovico de Luigi (November 1933), Venetian Surrealistic artist.
  • Giuseppe Sinopoli (2 November 1946 – 20 April 2001), conductor and composer.
  • Romano Scarpa (27 September 1927, Venice – 23 April 2005, Málaga), was one of the most famous Italian creators of Disney comics.
  • Francesco Borgato (5 September 1990, Venice), is an Italian recording artist and dancer.


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