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PIETRO ORSEOLO I

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PIETRO

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ORSEOLO I  . (c . 928–997) acted as
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ambassador to the
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emperor
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Otto I. before he was elected
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doge in
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August 976 . Just previous to this event
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part of
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Venice had been burned down and Pietro began the rebuilding of St
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Mark's
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church and the ducal
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palace . He is chiefly celebrated, however, for his piety and his generosity, and after holding
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office for two years he
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left Venice secretly and retired to a monastery in
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Aquitaine, where he passed his remaining days . He was canonized in 1731 .

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