page_title: Venice
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Venice / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: Engraving of the navigator and cartographer Sebastian Cabot (1474 - 1557), after an original by Hans Holbein [or the original may perhaps have been a close copy], that was destroyed by fire in 1845.
context_page_description: Venice is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region. It is on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 bridges. The islands are located in the shallow Venetian Lagoon, an enclosed bay that lies between the mouths of the Po and the Piave rivers. In 2018, 260,897 people resided in the Comune di Venezia, of whom around 55,000 live in the historical city of Venice. Together with Padua and Treviso, the city is included in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area, which is considered a statistical metropolitan area, with a total population of 2.6 million.
  The name is derived from the ancient Veneti people who inhabited the region by the 10th century BC. The city was historically the capital of the Republic of Venice for a millennium and more, from 697 to 1797. It was a major financial and maritime power during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and a staging area for the Crusades and the Battle of Lepanto, as well as an important center of commerce—especially silk, grain, and spice, and of art from the 13th century to the end of the 17th.
context_section_description: Others closely associated with the city include:
  Pietro Cesare Alberti (1608–1655), considered the first Italian-American, arriving in New Amsterdam in 1635.
  Tomaso Albinoni (8 June 1671 – 17 January 1751), a baroque composer.
  Claudio Ambrosini (9 April 1948), composer and conductor.
  Pietro Bembo (20 May 1470 – 18 January 1547), cardinal and scholar.
  Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430–1516), Renaissance painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family of painters.
  Francesco Borgato (5 September 1990, Venice), Italian recording artist and dancer.
  Marco Antonio Bragadin (d. 1571), general, flayed alive by the Turks after a fierce resistance during the siege of Famagusta.
  Sebastian Cabot (c. 1484–1557, or soon after), explorer.
  Canaletto (28 October 1697 – 19 April 1768), known for his landscapes or vedute of Venice, but not only.
  Rosalba Carriera (7 October 1675 – 15 April 1757), known for her pastel works.
  Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798 in Dux, Bohemia (now Duchcov, Czech Republic)), a Venetian adventurer, writer and womanizer.
  Francesco Cavalli (14 February 1602 – 14 January 1676), a baroque composer.
  Enrico Dandolo (c. 1107–1205), Doge of Venice from 1192 to his death, played a direct role in the Sack of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade.
  Vincenzo Dandolo (1758–1819), chemist, agronomist and politician of the Enlightenment Era.
  Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749–1838), opera librettist and poet, wrote the librettos for 28 operas by 11 composers, including Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
  Ludovico de Luigi (born 11 November 1933), Venetian Surrealistic artist.
  Dominic DeNucci (born 23 January 1932 as Dominic Nucciarone), Italian-American professional wrestler.
  Pellegrino Ernetti (1925–1994), Catholic priest and exorcist, alleged constructor of the chronovisor.
  Veronica Franco (1546–1591), poet and courtesan during the Renaissance.
  Andrea Gabrieli (c. 1510–1586), Italian composer and organist at St Mark's Basilica.
  Giovanni Gabrieli (1554/1557–1612), composer and organist at St Mark's Basilica.
  Carlo Goldoni (25 February 1707 – 6 February 1793). Along with Pirandello, Goldoni is probably the most notable name in Italian theatre, in his country and abroad.
  Carlo Gozzi (13 December 1720 – 4 April 1806), dramatist of the 18th century.
  Pietro Guarneri (14 April 1695 – 7 April 1762), left Cremona in 1718, settled in Venice. "Peter of Venice" from the family of great luthiers.
  Baldassare Longhena (1598 – 18 February 1682), one of the greatest exponents of Baroque architecture.
  Lorenzo Lotto (c. 1480–1556), painter, draughtsman, and illustrator, traditionally placed in the Venetian school.
  Bruno Maderna (21 April 1920 – 13 November 1973), an Italian-German orchestra director and 20th-century music composer.
  Aldus Manutius (1449–1515), one of the most important printers in history.
  Leon Modena (1571–1648) preacher, author, poet, active in the Venetian ghetto and beyond.
  Domenico Montagnana (24 June 1686 – 6 March 1750) was an Italian master luthier. He is regarded as one of the world's finest violin and cello makers of his time.
  Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643), composer, opera pioneer, and director of music at San Marco.
  Luigi Nono (29 January 1924 – 8 May 1990), a leading composer of instrumental and electronic music.
  Joseph Pardo (c. 1561–1619), rabbi and merchant.
  Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia (5 June 1646 – 26 July 1684), the first woman in the world to receive a doctorate degree.
  Marco Polo (c. 1254 – 8 January 1324), trader and explorer, one of the first Westerners to travel the Silk Road to China. While a prisoner in Genoa, he dictated in the tale of his travels known as Il Milione (The Travels of Marco Polo).
  Virgilio Ranzato (7 May 1883 – 20 April 1937), composer.
  Frederick Rolfe (22 July 1860 – 25 October 1913), English author of the Venetian novel The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole.
  Paolo Sarpi (14 August 1552 – 15 January 1623), historian, scientist, canon lawyer, statesman, defender of the liberties of Republican Venice and proponent of the separation of Church and state, Sarpi's writings inspired Thomas Hobbes, Edward Gibbon, and th
caption: The explorer Sebastian Cabot.
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