Marco Loredan

Marco Loredan (1489-1557) was a Venetian nobleman, senator and politician of the Loredan family, as well as Count of Brescia, Feltre, Rovigo, Salò and Famagusta, presiding over a time of famine and poverty following the War of the League of Cambrai.

Early life and family He was born in Venice in 1489, the youngest son of Alvise di Polo di Pietro, of the branch of Santa Maria Nova, and of Argentina Vincenzina Contarini di Giacomo da S. Maria Formosa.

Both the dispatches and the final report are missing from his stay in Cyprus, but the commissions entrusted to him in March 1551 show a priority interest of the Senate for the efficiency of the fortifications and the port and for the well-being of the population, important for the stability of that Venetian dominion. Recalled, after his return, to the Senate, unsuccessfully running for the Council of Ten, he was elected administrator of the Salò in 1555 and again, in 1557, he was elected senator.

He was still vested with that office when, on 15 October 1557, Marco died in Venice and was buried, as he had wished, in the Church of Sant'Elena.