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has examined how "in its period of domination in Padua from 1337 to 1405 the house of
Carrara sustained a singular chapter in the history of patronage". Francesco il Vecchio, son of Giacomo, a close friend of
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Marsilio and bishop Stefano in a Venetian prison in 1406; Marsilio died soon after, and Stefano fled to Rome, where he lived until 1448; all Paduan bishops to the
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from Padua and became the lords of that city. In 1388 a coalition of
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Part of their palace in Padua is still standing. Notable parts are the Loggia and the Sala dei
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and Padua. The abbey's church, dedicated to Saint
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placed them in an isolated position far outshining any other single family. Their extensive land holdings in the Paduan
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origin, to judge from his name and that of his son
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