Pietro Donato was a Venetian Renaissance humanist and successively archbishop of Crete, bishop of Castello and bishop of Padua. He was governor of Perugia from 1425 to 1430. He was also a noted biblio
Bishops Pietro Marcello [it] and Pietro Donato in the episcopal palace in Padua. Fresco by Bartolomeo Montagna.
The House of Donà is an old patrician family of Venice which produced three doges of Venice. The family has existed since at least the late twelfth century. Until the sixteenth century, the family wer
A medieval stone rendering of the arms of the Donà dalle Rose, held at the Musei civici di Padova