Married: 7 Ocober 1584, Pisana Priuli

Died: 9 November 1634, Venice

CAV. PROC. GIROLAMO MARCO CORNARO, a member of the Cornaro della Regina branch of the family in the S. Cassiano line, was one of the family's most distinguished military leaders, diplomats and patrons.

He began his career as Podesta' [governor] first at Vicenza, 1593-5, and then Bergamo, 1598-9. He later served as Capitano [military commander] at Verona, 1610, and Podesta' at Brescia, 1614. He was made a Senator, 1602, Cavalier, 1623, and ultimately Procurator di S. Marco, 1625. He served as a member of the Council of Ten on several occasions, first in 1608. In diplomacy, Cav. Proc. Girolamo was an ambassador of Venice to Pope Urban VIII and in military affairs he was Provveditore Generale in Terraferma [civilian leader of military forces on the mainland], 1623.

Much of Cav. Proc. Girolamo's lasting heritage is in his architectural commissions. As the second owner of the Andrea Palladio-designed Villa Cornaro at Piombino Dese, originally commissioned by his father Giorgio Cornaro (H-4), Cav. Proc. Girolamo completed construction of the villa wings under the supervision of Vincenzo Scamozzi. He also engaged Scamozzi to rebuild a barchessa for the villa and commissioned Camillo Mariani to execute the villa's innovative statuary gallery depicting six distinguished Cornaro forebearers.

Cav. Proc. Girolamo Cornaro also served as a member of the committee that commissioned Baldassare Longhena's Venetian landmark, the Church of S. Maria della Salute.

His gravemarker in the Cornaro Chapel, Church of SS. Apostoli, Venice, reads:

D. O. M.
HIERONAMO CORNELIO EQVITI AC D. M. PROC.RI GRA
VISSIMO INTEGERRIMO CVI PRÆTER P. BONVM
NIHIL CORDI. PLVRIES CONSILIARIO ET SAPIENTI PLV
RIES ET PRÆTORI ET PRÆFECTO. PATAVINI MODERATO
RI LYCEI. PRO PESCHARIÆ VALLO CONGENERALI. GENE
RALI MVITOTIES TERRÆ FIRMÆ TVM COMMISARIO
TUM PROVISORI IN EADEM TOTA NON SEMEL IM
PERAT AD VRBANVM. VIII. ORATORI. VBIQ GEORGII PA
TRIS QVI PATRIÆ NON SIBI NATVS CLASSICIS CONFE
CTVS ÆRVMNIS CORCYRÆ DORMIT, ÆMVLATORI. PA
RENTI AMANTISS.MO GEORGIVS NATV MAIOR PRATRVM FE
DERICI FRANCISCI EQVITIS ET ANDREÆ AD VOTA M P.
OBIIT OCTAVA NOVEMBRIS. MDCXXXIIII. ÆTATIS. LXXII.