Pietro Lando

Pietro Lando
Portrait of Pietro Lando by Jacopo Sansovino
Reign1538–1545
PredecessorAndrea Gritti
SuccessorFrancesco Donà
Born1462
Venice, Republic of Venice
Died9 November 1545(1545-11-09) (aged 82–83)
Venice
SpousesMaria Pasqualigo

Pietro Lando was the Doge of Venice from 1538 to 1545.

Coat of arms of Pietro Lando

He had a distinguished career as Captain General of the Sea, but was forced to sign a humiliating peace treaty with Suleiman I in 1540, ceding Venice's last possessions in the Peloponnese to the Ottoman Empire. He was married to Maria Pasqualigo.[1]