Francesco Foscari

[5] Despite the justification of Venetian embroilment in the terraferma that was offered in Foscari's funeral oration, delivered by the humanist senator and historian Bernardo Giustiniani,[6] and some victories, the war was extremely costly to Venice, whose real source of wealth and power was at sea.

Two further trials, in 1450 and 1456 – during the latter he confessed, without even the need of torture, to having pleaded for help from the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II and the aforementioned Duke of Milan, both Venice's enemies – led to Jacopo's imprisonment on Crete and his eventual death there soon after.

[10] His monument by the sculptor Antonio Bregno in collaboration with his architect brother Paolo was erected in the church of Santa Maria dei Frari in Venice.

The Byron play served as the basis for the libretto written by Francesco Maria Piave for Giuseppe Verdi's opera I due Foscari, which premiered on 3 November 1844 in Rome.

Mary Mitford, author of the popular literary sketches of the English countryside entitled Our Village, also wrote a successful play concerned with events in Foscari's life.

Antonio Gambello, Francesco Foscari, c. 1374-1457, Doge of Venice 1423 (obverse) , probably c. 1457
Coat of arms of Francesco Foscari.
The Parting of the Two Foscari by Francesco Hayez ,1842 (Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Florence).
The tomb of Foscari in Frari , Venice