Nicolò da Ponte [SEP] date of birth
Nicolò da Ponte
Nicolò da Ponte (15 January 1491 – 30 July 1585) was the eighty seventh Doge of Venice from 1578 to 1585. He reigned in a fairly quiet period.
Life.
Da Ponte was born in Sant’Agnese in Venice to the patrician Antonio da Ponte and his wife Regina Spandolino, who was originally from Constantinople. The da Pontes had just gone through a period of severe financial difficulties after the Ottoman conquest of Negroponte, where it owned considerable property, but the marriage of his father with a
Antonio and Pauline. His son predeceased him in 1558, and when Nicolò died he left his property to his nephew, also named Nicolò. The latter died in 1590 without heirs, leaving this branch of the Da Ponte extinct.
Reign as Doge.
In 1570 da Ponte became a Procurator of San Marco, and on 3 March 1578, he was elected as Doge in a long and conflict-ridden election that required 44 ballots.
Although he was in his late 80s when elected Doge, he had a