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Marin Faliero was the fifty-fifth Doge of Venice, appointed on 11 September 1354. He attempted a coup d'etat in 1355, at the time being Doge himself, but with the intention of declaring himself Prince. This action failed, he pleaded guilty to all charges and was beheaded and his body mutilated. Ten additional ringleaders were hanged on display from the Doge's Palace on St Mark's Square.
This subject was treated by Delacroix a few decades before. The story of Marin Faliero's uprising was made into a drama by Lord Byron in 1820 and an opera by Gaetano Donizetti in 1835.
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