Cav. Andrea Cornaro
(F-56)
Born: 18 September 1787
Died: 14
January 1842
Cav. Andrea Cornaro (F-56) was a Cavaliere [knight] of
the orders of the Iron Crown and of the Legion of Honor. On 21 May 1841
he sold Ca' Cornaro della Ca' Granda, the
family palace on the Grand Canal in San Maurizio Parish, to the occupying
Austrian government for Lire 96,000, ending 300 years of Cornaro family
ownership.
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