Biographies are not my greatest passion, by somehow individuals keep popping up in history, so of course there are some articles about individuals here too.
500s
- Alboin (530s–572) was king of the Lombards from about 560 until 572, and led the first Lombard invasion of Italy in 568.
700s
- Paoluccio Anafesto (also Paulicius or Paulicio, also with the surname Anafesto) was the first doge of Venice, nominally from 697 to 717, but the years are uncertain, as is his real identity. See also: Paulicius — the first doge of Venice?.
- Marcello Tegalliano (†726) was, according to tradition, the 2nd doge of Venice from 717 to his death in 726, but very little is known about him.
- Paul the Deacon (c.720–c.799) was a Lombard scholar, writer, historian, teacher and monk, best known for his history of the Lombard people.
1000s
- John the Deacon (c.940–c.1018; also Giovanni da Venezia, Giovanni Diacono, Iohannes Diaconus or Iohannes Venetus) was a Venetian chronicler and secretary to doge Pietro Orseolo II.
1200s
- Jacopo Tiepolo (c.1170–1249) was the 43rd doge of the Republic of Venice, 1229–1249.
1300s
- Andrea Dandolo (1306-1354) was the 54th doge of Venice, from 1343 until his death. He wrote the very influential Chronica per extensum descripta in the 1340s.
- Marin Falier (1274–1355) was the 55th doge of Venice, from 1354 to 1355, when he was executed for high treason against the republic.
1400s
- Bartolomeo Colleoni (c.1400–1475) was a nobleman and condottiero from Bergamo.
1500s
- Angela dal Moro (1500s, also known as Zaffetta) was a well-known Venetian courtesan, who also modelled for Titian.
- Tommaso Rangoni da Ravenna, (1493–1577) was an astrologer and physician, who got rich and famous selling remedies for syphilis.
- Cesare Vecellio (1521–1601) was a Venetian artist, cousin and collaborator of Titian, but best known for his work on Italian Renaissance dress, the Habiti Antichi et Moderni (1590).
- Bianca Cappello (1548–1587) was a Venetian noblewoman, who eloped with her lover as a teenager, and became Grand Duchess of Tuscany and a Daughter of the Republic.
- Giacomo Franco (1550–1620) was a Venetian engraver and publisher, best known for collections of prints of Venetian dress and customs.
- Veronica Franco (1553–1591) was a Venetian poet and courtesan.
1600s
- Paolo Sarpi (1552–1623) was a Venetian monk and scholar, which the Catholic Church tried to assassinate in 1607.
1700s
- Domenico Lovisa was a printer and publisher in Venice in the late 1600s and early 1700s.
- Il Gran teatro di Venezia (c.1717).
- Rosalba Carriera (1673-1757) was a Venetian painter and miniaturist from the Rococo period.
- Gaetano Zompini was a Venetian painter and engraver, famous for his prints of common people on the streets of Venice.
- Gabriel Bella (c.1720–1799) was a Venetian painter, who mostly worked for the Giustinian and Querini families.
- Giovanni Grevembroch (1731-1807) was a Venetian artist, probably of Dutch descent, who worked for many years for the Venetian nobleman Pietro Gradenigo. His best known work is the Gli Abiti de Veneziani.
- Domenico Pizzamano (1748–1817) was a nobleman, who crossed Napoleon in 1797 as commander of the Forte di Sant’Andrea.
1800s
- Luigi Scolari (c.1843–1859) was a Venetian high-school student, who was killed by Austrian soldiers in 1859.
- Giuseppe Tassini (1827–1899) was a Venetian scholar and prolific writer on Venetian history, in particular the Curiosità Veneziane.
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