Alvise Loredan, Venetian admiral and statesman (born 1393)

Alvise Loredan

15th-century Venetian nobleman and captain

Alvise Loredan was a Venetian nobleman of the Loredan family. At a young age he became a galley captain, and served with distinction as a military commander, with a long record of battles against the Ottomans, from the naval expeditions to aid Thessalonica, to the Crusade of…