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4 unusual facts about Council of Ten


Hacı Ahmet

It was kept until the late 18th century in the archives of the Venetian Council of Ten.

Julius Pomponius Laetus

Here he was brought under investigation by the Council of Ten on suspicion of having seduced his students, whom he was said to have praised with excessive ardour in some Latin poems.

Nicolò Marcello

Marcello was a trader with the Orient before he undertook various important public positions in the Republic of Venice such as provost of the Council of Ten, consigliere, and procurator.

Teatro San Angelo

In the 1790s the Abate Pietro Chiari wrote for the Teatro San Angelo, and in 1797 Casanova wrote an attack on Chiari incurring the enmity of Antonio Condulmer, co-owner of the theatre and a member of the Council of Ten.


Bernardo Navagero

He has been Venetian resident ambassador at the courts of emperor Charles V (1543-46), Suleiman the Magnificent (1550-52) and pope Paul IV (1555-58), and member of the Council of Ten (1552).


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