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Pietro Grimani
Portrait by Bartolomeo Nazari
Doge of Venice
In office
1741–1752
Preceded byAlvise Pisani
Succeeded byFrancesco Loredan
Personal details
Born5 October 1677
Venice, Republic of Venice
Died7 March 1752 (aged 74)
Venice

Pietro Grimani (October 5, 1677 in Venice – March 7, 1752 in Venice) was a Venetian statesman and aristocrat who served as the 115th Doge of Venice from June 30, 1741, until his death. Grimani was born a member of the Grimani family. He was a cultured and learned man, who wrote poetry and counted among his acquaintances Isaac Newton, whom he had met while serving as a diplomat in England. He was succeeded as Doge by Francesco Loredan. Pietro Grimani was the castellanus of coron and modon. The Venitian senate gave regions like Monemvasia to Grimani but Grimani family was not able to gain full control.

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Political offices
Preceded byAlvise Pisani Doge of Venice
1741–1752
Succeeded byFrancesco Loredan
Doges of Venice
Byzantine period (697–737)
Regime of the magistri militum (738–742)
Ducal period (742–1148)
8th century
9th century
10th century
11th century
12th century
* deposed     † executed or assassinated     ‡ killed in battle     ♦ abdicated
Republican period (1148–1797)
12th century
13th century
14th century
15th century
16th century
17th century
18th century
Marino Faliero (1354–55) was convicted of treason, executed and condemned to damnatio memoriae
* Francesco Foscari (1423–57) was forced to abdicate by the Council of Ten
* Ludovico Manin (1789–97) was forced to abdicate by Napoleon leading to the Fall of the Republic of Venice


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