(ca.1560 – after 1639), painter of the late-Renaissance period. Niccolò Cassana (1659–1714), late-Baroque painter. Rosalba Carriera (1675–1757), Rococo painter, known for her pastel works. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770), painter and printmaker, painted in the Rococo style, Venetian school. Canaletto (1697–1768), painter, known for his landscapes or vedute of Venice. Pietro Longhi (ca.1702–1785) painter of contemporary genre scenes of life. Giuseppe Santomaso (1907–1990), Italian painter. Emilio Vedova (1919–2006), an important modern painter of Italy. Ludovico de Luigi (born 1933), Venetian Surrealistic artist. Writing Christine de Pizan (1364–ca.1430), a poet and court writer for King Charles VI of France Aldus Manutius (1449–1515), an important printer, founded the Aldine Press. Jean-Antoine de Baïf (1532–1589), a French poet and member of La Pléiade. Veronica Franco (1546–1591), poet and courtesan during the Renaissance. Paolo Sarpi (1552–1623), historian, scientist, canon lawyer, statesman, defender of the liberties of Republican Venice. His writings inspired Thomas Hobbes, Edward Gibbon, and the founding fathers of the United States. Leon Modena (1571–1648), author, poet, preacher, active in the Venetian Ghetto. Carlo Goldoni (1707–1793), playwright and librettist, notable name in Italian theatre. Carlo Gozzi (1720–1806), playwright and champion of Commedia dell'arte. Elisabetta Caminèr Turra (1751–1796), writer and translator of foreign plays. Frederick Rolfe (1860–1913), English author of the Venetian novel The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole. Doges & public servants Enrico Dandolo (ca.1107–1205), Doge of Venice from 1192 to his death, played a direct role in the Sack of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade. Pope Eugene IV (1383–1447), Pope, 1431-1447, nephew of Pope Gregory XII. Pope Paul II (1417–1471), Pope, 1464-1471, succeeded Pope Pius II. Andrea Gritti (1455–1538), Doge of the Venetian Republic from 1523 to 1538 Pietro Bembo (1470–1547), scholar, poet, literary theorist and cardinal. Sebastiano Venier (ca.1496–1578), Doge of Venice from 11 June 1577 to 1578. Marco Antonio Bragadin (d. 1571), general, flayed alive by the Turks after a fierce resistance during the siege of Famagusta. Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia (1646–1684), the first woman in the world to receive a doctorate degree. Jacopo Riccati (1676–1754) a Venetian mathematician, wrote the Riccati equation. Pope Clement XIII (1693–1769), Pope, 1758 to his death in 1769. Count Vincenzo Dandolo (1758–1819), chemist, agronomist and politician of the Enlightenment Era. Daniele Manin (1804–1857) was an Italian patriot, statesman and leader of the Risorgimento in Venice. Explorers Marco Polo (ca.1254–1324), trader and explorer, one of the first Westerners to travel the Silk Road to China.