Andrea Pisani (admiral)

Andrea Pisani (Venice, 1662 – Corfu, 21 September 1718) was a Venetian noble who served as Captain General of the Sea during the Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War.

[a] During his youth, he was banished from Venice[1] on the orders of the Council of Ten (25 August 1682), for having perpetrated indecent acts against the Sisters of Sant Catherine the Virgin Martyr [it] in Brescia.

[2] In order to redeem himself, he enlisted as a volunteer in the Imperial army operating in Hungary during the Siege of Buda.

[2] In the next year, he returned to Venice, enlisting in the Venetian navy under the captain (Governator di Nave) Pietro Zaguri.

[4] Once back in Santa Maura, he busied himself with its re-fortification, alongside Count Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg.