Andrea Pisani (admiral)

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Andrea Pisani
Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War: Siege of Corfu
AwardsKnight of the Order of the Golden Stola [it]
RelationsAlvise Pisani

Andrea Pisani (

Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War
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Biography

Andrea Pisani was born in Venice in 1662, to a noble family belonging to the Venetian patriciate. He was the son of Gianfrancesco Pisani and Paolina Contarini.[a]

During his youth, he was banished from Venice[1] on the orders of the Council of Ten (25 August 1682), for having perpetrated indecent acts against the Sisters of Sant Catherine the Virgin Martyr [it] in Brescia.[2] In order to redeem himself, he enlisted as a volunteer in the Imperial army operating in Hungary during the Siege of Buda.[2] In the next year, he returned to Venice, enlisting in the Venetian navy under the captain (Governator di Nave) Pietro Zaguri.[2]

In 1693, he was appointed paymaster under the

Ottoman fleet, and in the next year he fought in the Battle of Andros under Captain General Alessandro Molin [it].[3]

On his return to Venice he was elected to the

Santa Maura.[3]

In 1717, he distinguished himself in the battle off

Passavas, along with his brother Carlo [it]: aboard a small felucca, Pisani passed through the enemy ships in full action, reorganized his own ships of the line, and encouraged his troops.[4] Once back in Santa Maura, he busied himself with its re-fortification, alongside Count Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg.[5] He then recovered Preveza and Vonitsa, for which he was awarded by the Senate the Knighthood of the Order of the Golden Stola [it].[3]

In 1718, he was besieging

Dulcigno when news arrived of the Treaty of Passarowitz. He lifted the siege and returned with the fleet to Corfu.[3] On 21 September 1718 he was killed in an explosion caused when a thunderbolt struck a gunpowder magazine.[3] His body was transported to Venice, where his funeral took place; he was buried in the island of La Certosa.[3]

Footnotes

  1. ^ The couple had five other sons, Carlo (1655-1740), Ermolao, the future Doge Alvise, Lorenzo, and Marcantonio

References

  1. ^ Bandi et sentenze dell'eccelso Conseglio di dieci contra Tommaso e Paolo fratelli Caprioli q. conte Costanzo di Brescia, ed altri fra' quali ser Andrea Pisani de ser Z. Francesco, Stampate per Gio. Pietro Pinelli stampator ducale.
  2. ^ a b c d Cicogna 1827, p. 93.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Cicogna 1827, p. 94.
  4. ^ Cicogna 1827, p. 95.
  5. ^ Ferrari 1723, p. 249.

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  • Candiani, Guido (2012). Dalla galea alla nave di linea: le trasformazioni della marina veneziana (1572-1699) (in Italian). Novi Ligure: Città del Silenzio.
  • Cicogna, Emmanuele Antonio (1827). Delle inscrizioni veneziane raccolte ed illustrate da Emmanuele Antonio Cicogna cittadino veneto. Vol. II (in Italian). Venice: Giuseppe Picotti Stampatore.
  • Ercole, Guido (2006). Duri i banchi. Le navi della Serenissima 421-1797 (in Italian). Gardolo: Gruppo Modellismo Trentino di studio e ricerca storica.
  • Ferrari, Girolamo (1723). Delle notizie storiche della Lega tra l'Imperatore Carlo VI e la Repubblica di Venezia contra il Gran Sultano Achmet III e de' loro fatti d'arme dall'anno 1714 sino alla Pace di Passarowitz (in Italian). Venezia: Presso Carlo Buonarrigo.
  • Levi, Cesare Augusto (1896). Navi da guerra costruite nell'Arsenale di Venezia dal 1664 al 1896 (in Italian). Venezia: Stabilimento Tipografico Fratelli Visentini.
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