Burano

And it's very...

Uh, that's kind of dominating the, the, the economy of B- of, uh, Burano.

Mm-hmm.

Yes.

Mm-hmm.

Always worth, um, remembering that.

Just wander around Burano.

Mm.

It looked like a scattering of specks.

Torcello here, Burano there, Malamocco, Rialto, still just a cluster of low islets, each with its own little church, its own landing place, its own pile-built houses gripping the mud.

And yet, beneath that scattered surface, patterns were forming.

Channels became regular routes.

Unfortunately, that's going to be a long wait, but as a quick foretaste, Francesco Morosini is perhaps best known for his habit of always dressing in red, taking his pet cat Nini with him into battle, and blowing up the Parthenon.

There are also four Morosini women who will become dogaresses in the future of our story, and the most famous of those is the alliteratively named Morosina Morosini, who was one of the great First Ladies of the Republic in the very early 1600s, and who was a steadfast patron and supporter of the Burano lace-making industry.

But sadly, none of that future excitement from the Morissini family applies to our subject today, Doge Marino.

Despite his high-profile name, we know almost nothing about his life.