Loredan family
Leonardo (1438-1521), doge from 1501, presided, at first feebly but with mounting authority, over Venice in the most desperate period of its fortunes: the campaigns (1509-16) that followed the Venetian defeat at Agnadello. Pietro (1481-1571), doge from 1567, saw Venice into the first dramatic phases of the War of Cyprus. These careers brought but additional fame to a family prominent in Venice in previous centuries and which, in the person of another Piero (d. 1439), had notably contributed to both the military and the administrative extension of that mainland empire which was to arouse the jealousy of the allies of Cambrai in 1509.
