Pietro Cornaro
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Pietro Cornaro, also known as Peter Cornaro or Corner (died in 1387 or 1388), was Lord of Argos and Nauplia in Frankish Greece from 1377.
Pietro was the son of Federico Cornaro of the Santa Lucia branch.[1] He was born before 1363.[1] Being one of the wealthiest Venetian patricians of his age, Federigo could afford to conduct his own foreign policy.[1] Historian Anthony Luttrell proposes that Federigo arranged Pietro's marriage with Maria of Enghien, Lady of Argos and Nauplia, in 1377 most probably because he wanted to establish a commercial basis in the Peloponnese.[1] The Senate of Venice authorized him on 16 July 1377 to arm a galley and to transport Maria to Venice.[1]