(St Laurence), the first patriarch of Venice, was born there of a noble family in 1381. He was a very pious prelate, and died in 1485; he left several pieces of piety, which were printed together at Lyons in 1568, in one volume folio, with his life prefixed by his nephew. Clement VII. beatified him in 1524, and he was canonized by Alexander VIII. in 1690.

(Bernard), was born at Venice in 1408. He obtained the senator's robe at the age of 19, served the republic in several embassies, and was elected procurator of St Mark in 1474. He was a learned man, and wrote the History of Venice, with some other works of considerable merit; and died in 1498.

(Augustin), bishop of Nebo, one of the most learned men of his time, was descended from a branch of the same noble family with the two foregoing; and was born at Genoa in 1480. He assisted at the fifth council of Lateran, where he opposed some articles of the concordat between France and the court of Rome. Francis I. of France made him his almoner; and he was for five years regius professor of Hebrew at Paris. He returned to Genoa in 1522, where he discharged all the duties of a good prelate; and learning and piety flourished in his diocese. He perished at sea in his passage from Genoa to Nebbio, in 1536. He composed several pieces; the most considerable of which is, Pflasterium Hebraicum, Graecum, Arabicum, et Chaldeum, cum tribus Latinis interpretationibus et glossis. This was the first platter of the kind printed; and there is also ascribed to the same prelate a translation of Maimonides's Moore Nevochim.