[2] In 1299, Padua acted as surety for Venice in its peace treaty with Genoa following the War of Curzola.
[4] It was a dispute over Padua's right to construct salt pans on the swampy peninsula of Calcinara on the Lagoon near the frontier with Chioggia.
[2][5][6] The Paduan commune had acquired the land at Calcinara from Gualpertino,[a] the abbot of Santa Giustina and brother of the poet Albertino Mussato.
[6] In an effort to prevent the dispute from turning into a war, Padua sent Giovanni Caligine[b] on a diplomatic mission to Venice.
[9] Negotiations between Padua and Verona took place in March–April, with the personal intervention of Alboino della Scala.
[13] The border between Venice and Padua was also adjusted in the former's favour, to remove the former salt works from the latter's jurisdiction.
[6] Following the peace, the Paduan poets and early humanists Mussato and Lovato exchanged verses on the war.
Lovato asked Mussato whether he thought the peace could last, given that, through terms that favoured Venice, Padua's "wounded liberty might be the cause of a second conflict."