Name Pietro Lando | ||
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Died November 9, 1545, Venice, Italy | ||
Pietro Lando was the Doge of Venice from 1538 to 1545.
He had a distinguished career as Captain-General, but was forced to sign a humiliating peace treaty with Suleiman I in 1540, ceding Venice's last possessions in the Peloponnese to the Ottoman Empire. He was married to Maria Pasqualigo.
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