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Giovanni Pertinax Morosini was born in Venice nearly 100 years ago when the city belonged to Austria. Who his parents were the record does not say, but he always liked to believe that he was descended from the magnificent Doge Francesco Morosini (1618-94), Commander-in-chief of the Venetian Navy...
scourge of the Turks-a relationship which the present impoverished Contessa Morosini never acknowledged. Doge Francesco would have chuckled over Giovanni Pertinax's career...