Sen. Federico Antonio Alberto Cornaro (H-40)




Born: 6 June 1676

Married: 23 December 1716, Cecilia Mocenigo

Died: May 1743

SEN. FEDERICO ANTONIO ALBERTO CORNARO, a member of the Cornaro della Regina branch of the Cornaro family in its S. Cassiano line, was associated with two of the great architectural treasures of the Veneto. With his brother Proc. Andrea Antonio Giuseppe Cornaro (H-39), he commissioned Domenico Rossi to reconstruct Ca' Cornaro della Regina on the Grand Canal in San Cassiano Parish.

Andrea was also, 1742-3, the 9th owner/manager of Villa Cornaro, his family's Palladian villa at Piombino Dese.



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