Andrea Dandolo

Andrea Dandolo (30 April 1306 – 7 September 1354) was a Venetian noble from one of the republic's oldest families, which had already given it three doges. He probably studied law at Padua and became procurator of St Mark's around 1328, then was elected the fifty-fourth doge on 4 January 1343.

A friend and correspondent of Petrarch, he had the Pala d'Oro of St Mark's restored in 1343–1345, gathered the republic's treaties into the Liber Albus and Liber Blancus, and wrote the Chronica Extensa, a chronicle of Venice from its origins to 1280.

The Black Death of 1348 may have taken half of Venice; Zara revolted and a war with Genoa filled his last four years. He died in 1354, before it ended, and was buried in St Mark's Baptistery.