Federico Badoer (1519–1593) was a diplomat of the

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whose career was derailed in the 1560s by debts and unauthorized diplomacy. Badoer was born on 2 January 1519 in

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. His father was

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. He was a promising youth, being praised by

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, Paolo Manuzio,

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and

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. He was elected a '' Savio agli Ordini'' in 1539. On 28 February 1547, he was sent as an ambassador extraordinary to the court of Duke Guidobaldo II of Urbino to give the republic's condolences on the death of the Duchess Giulia da Varano. On 10 August 1549, he was named ambassador to the court of King

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, where he resided from 1550 to 1552. He succeeded Francesco Badoer. In 1553, Badoer served as '' Avogador di Comun''. On 24 March 1554, he was named ambassador to the court of

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, where he arrived in November. His goal was to prevent

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from acquiring the

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. After Charles's abdication in 1556, he went to the court of King

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. Badoer returned to Venice in February 1557. Later that year, he founded the Accademia della Fama also known as Accademia Veneziana. The academy had the support of and his circle of poets. Venier was Badoer's long-time friend. In 1558, Francesco Patrizi wrote a praise poem, ''Badoaro'', in his honour. After he defaulted on the many debts he incurred funding his upstart academy, the

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ordered his arrest on 19 August 1561, along with his nephews, Alvise, Giustiniano and Giovanni. The Accademia was shut down by the government.. It has been suspected that the Accademia's ties with

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in Germany may have been the real reason for its shutdown. Badoer's legal troubles lasted for years. On 7 December 1568, a warrant was again issued of his arrest for improper dealings with a foreign prince, Duke Henry II of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, who wished to settle in Venice. (In 1542, the

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had forbidden

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s from dealing with foreigners in Venice without authorization.) On 15 December, the Council confiscated 13,375

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and 9,314

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s that the duke had given Badoer to purchase property on his behalf. He was freed pending trial. On 30 January 1569, he married Elisabetta Malipiero, who brought him a dowry of 22,000 ducats. On 23 January 1570, he was acquitted. Badoer was not heavily involved in politics after the legal troubles of the 1560s. In 1582–1583, he argued before the Maggior Consiglio in favour of reducing the power of the Council of Ten. He died on 13 November 1593 and was buried in the church of San Canziano.

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