Albano Contarini was a Venetian nobleman and governor of Athens from 1395 to 1397. He was born to a Venetian father of the Contarini family and an Albanian mother from Avlona (Vlorë). He tried to buy Vlorë from Komnina, the wife of Balša II.[1] By July 18, 1399 Albano Contarini had been appointed podestà and captain of Nauplia and was to take over what was left of the government of Argos.[2]