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
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
Francesco Morosini
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Francesco Morosini was the Doge of Venice from 1688 to 1694, at the height of the Great Turkish War. He was one of the many doges and generals produced by the Venetian noble Morosini family.
Silvestro Valier
…and way with words proved useful. Valier was a lover of the good life, but he was also generous to the poor and thereby gained their affections. Doge Francesco Morosini died on 16 January 1694. Morosini, a military hero before becoming Doge, had been the rare seventeenth-century Doge of Venice who was active on the…
Portrait by Giovanni Carboncino
Merit Offers the Command to Doge Morosini, by Gregorio Lazzarini, 1694
Medal struck in Morosini's honour for his military exploits in the Morean War.
The Acropolis of Athens viewed from the Hill of the Muses