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Girolamo Corner

Medal commemorating the Venetian victories in the Morean War, struck by Georg Hautsch in Nuremberg in 1687. Corner is shown as one of the main Venetian commanders in the lower left of the obverse.

Girolamo Corner or Cornaro (25 June 1632 – 1 October 1690) was a Venetian nobleman and statesman. He served in high military posts during the Morean War against the Ottoman Empire, leading the Venetian conquest of Castelnuovo and Knin in Dalmatia, the capture of Monemvasia in Greece and of Valona and Kanina in Albania.

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