Andrea Contarini

Andrea Contarini (c. 1300–1382) had twice avoided the dogeship before being chosen as Venice's sixtieth doge on 20 January 1368; he accepted only when told refusal meant perpetual exile and confiscation of his goods.

His dogeship was defined by the War of Chioggia against Genoa. After the defeat off Pola on 7 May 1379 the Genoese seized Chioggia; Contarini liquidated his fortune to fund the war and, though nearly eighty, took command of some of the ships. The imprisoned admiral Vettor Pisani was released with the last forty galleys, and Chioggia was retaken on 24 June 1380. The Peace of Turin in 1381 cost Venice Dalmatia, Treviso and Tenedos, and Contarini died on 5 June 1382.