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[Esteban Trento]

The Foscari was an acient family, originated at the village of
Zelarino (near Mestre), that moved to Venice in the 9th century.
Among the many famous members of the family, the most noted is the
"doge" Francesco Foscari. He witnessed his son Jacopo in prison,
tortured and expelled from Venice. And he was so hated by the Party of
the Oldmen that at the age of 84 he was deposed by a decree of the
Maggior Consiglio in 1457. In the presence of the Signoria and the
chiefs of the Consiglio, his ring and the "corno" were taken away. He
retired to his palace at S. Barnaba.
This palace is the same where lived in 1699 Maria Casimira, queen of
Poland, and in 1574 Henry III and Eleonor of France.
Sanudo remembered the party of 1513 in this palace in the occasion of
the marriage of Federico Foscari with a daughter of Giovanni Venier.