Leonardo Dandolo

Leonardo Dandolo (1326–1406) was the younger son of Doge Andrea Dandolo and Francesca Morosini, named in the doge's will of 1354. A knight, he served from 1362 as duke of Candia, Venice's governor of Crete.

In August 1363, when Latin feudatories resisted a new Senate port tax, Dandolo refused to suspend it; on 9 August the rebels stormed the ducal palace, seized him and raised the banner of Saint Titus under Marco Gradenigo the Elder. A Venetian army led by Luchino dal Verme retook Candia in May 1364.

Around 1367 he was one of four Averroist-leaning patricians whose verdict that Petrarch was a good man but unlettered provoked the tract On His Own Ignorance. He later held senior offices and died on 16 January 1406.