Pietro Querini Pezzagallo
Pietro Querini, commonly called Pezzagallo,{{sfn|Hazlitt|1860|p=454}} was a member of the patrician House of Querini. He served as Bailo of Negroponte, one of the most senior appointments in the Republic of Venice's overseas empire,{{sfn|Hazlitt|1860|p=454}} in 1306–1308.{{sfn|Hopf|1856|p=101}} On his return he was tried and fined with 500 ducats because he had allowed his son Nicolo to maltreat a member of the local Jewish community.{{sfn|Hazlitt|1860|p=454}} In 1309 he was again convicted and fined because he had resisted a search for concealed weapons by the Signori di Notte and assaulted the responsible officer.{{sfn|Hazlitt|1860|pp=454–455}} Along with his brother Marco Querini he was involved in the Tiepolo conspiracy of 1310.{{sfn|Hazlitt|1860|p=454}}
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- {{cite book | last= Hazlitt | first = W. Carew | author-link=William Carew Hazlitt | title = The Venetian Republic: Its Rise, its Growth, and its Fall, 421–1797. Volume II | year = 1860 | publisher = Smith, Elder & Co | location = London | isbn = 978-0-404-03194-7 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=4Tc_AAAAYAAJ }}
- {{cite book |first=Carlo |last=Hopf | authorlink = Karl Hopf (historian) |title= Dissertazione documentata sulla storia di Karystos nell'isola di Negroponte, 1205 - 1470 | translator = G. B. de Sardagna | language = Italian |location=Venice | year = 1856 |publisher=Pietro Naratovich |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FQ9CAAAAcAAJ }}