Elisabetta Querini
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Elisabetta Querini was the Dogaressa of Venice by marriage to the Doge Silvestro Valier.
Elisabetta Querini portrayed by Niccolò Cassana
Elisabetta Querini by Giovanni Bonazza
Silvestro Valier
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Silvestro Valier or Valiero was the 109th Doge of Venice, reigning from his election on 25 February 1694 until his death six years later. The Morean War between the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman
Elisabetta Querini
…Elisabetta Querini (November 12, 1628 in Venice – January 19, 1709 in Venice) was the Dogaressa of Venice by marriage to the Doge Silvestro Valier (r. 1694–1700). Elisabetta was born as the daughter of the procurator Paolo Querini of the Stampalia branch of the family and his wife Bianca Ruzzini…
Portrait by Niccolò Cassana, 1694
Italian translation of a c. 1694 Persian letter of congratulations sent by Shah Soltan Hoseyn of Safavid Iran to Valier, the newly elected Doge of Venice. Although the content is mostly honorific and auspicious, the underlining tone serves the political purpose of expanding relations between the two countries in case of an Ottoman insurgence
Monument of the Valier family
Statue of Silvestro Valier