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Liberalità Misteriosa — Mysterious Liberality — Grevembroch 4-1
The newly elected doge, before he was presented with the corno ducale in the Palazzo Ducale, was carried around the Piazza San Marco in the pozzetto, while money was thrown to the people.
The people with red caps are the arsenalotti, workers from the Venetian navy docks.
#CreationOfDoges #HeadOfState #Sources #Translations #VenetianState #Venezia #Venice
Read more here: https://historywalksvenice.com/translation/liberalita-misteriosa-mysterious-liberality-grevembroch-4-1/
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Gran Consiglio — Habiti d’huomeni et donne venetiane — 12
A meeting of the Maggior Consiglio of the Republic of Venice. The Maggior Consiglio was the sovereign body and the highest authority of the republic.
#Engravings #Republic #Sources #VenetianState #Venezia #Venice
Read more here: https://historywalksvenice.com/translation/habiti-dhuomeni-et-donne-venetiane-12-gran-consiglio/
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Daughter of the Republic
Bianca Cappello was created “daughter of the Republic” because Venice didn’t have princesses.
https://venetianstories.com/venetian-story/daughter-of-the-republic/
#1500s #BiancaCappello #DaughterOfTheRepublic #RepublicOfVenice #VenetianState #Venezia #Venice -
However, we’ll make another
In the late Venetian republic, when the doge died, they held the funeral for a statue.
#LaSerenissima #HeadOfState #VenetianState #Venezia #Venice
https://historywalksvenice.com/venetian-story/however-well-make-another/
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The Venetian constitution
Several recent Venetian Stories and many other posts on the History Walks Venice website have touched on legal issues: laws around prostitution and fun-loving nuns, but also issues like legal protections for inventors and just keeping order in general.
One particularity shared by these stories is that the people and institutions making the laws were the same as those who enforced the laws and who judged transgressions of the same laws.
#1200s #1300s #1400s #1500s #VenetianState #Venezia #Venice
Read more here: https://venetianstories.com/venetian-story/the-venetian-constitution/
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The Doge
The doge was the elected head of the Venetian Republic. He was elected for life by an arcane process that also included drawing lots.
#Doge #Elections #HeadOfState #RegioXVenetiaEtHistria #VenetianState #Venezia #Venice
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Fornicators of Nuns
"Fornicators of Nuns" is probably not the first term you'll be looking for when you settle into an armchair with an old dictionary, just to browse it a bit out of general curiosity. It is one of those signs that the past is like another country. They did things differently, and sometimes very differently.
#1500s #1600s #LawAndOrder #Slavery #VenetianState #Venezia #Venice
Read more here: https://venetianstories.com/venetian-story/fornicators-of-nuns/
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Sestiere – sestieri
Venice is divided into six parts called sestieri - singular sestiere.
It has always been that way. From the earliest sources we have, there sestieri are there in Venice.
#Franks #HowVeniceWorks #Topography #VenetianState #Venezia #Venice
Read more here: https://historywalksvenice.com/article/sestiere-sestieri/
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Venice might not have been
Venice was an independent state for almost a millennium, but it might note have been. It all hinged on a single battle fought in the Venetian lagoon in 810.
In the 700s, it had been a province of the Byzantine Exarchate of Ravenna for a long time. However, long wars between the Exarchate and the Lombards had reduced the province to just a sliver of lagoon, called Venetia Marittima, between Grado in the north and Ravenna in the south.
In 751, the Lombards got the better of the Exarchate, when they took Ravenna and captured and probably killed the last Exarch. Then the Franks under Charlemagne appeared in northern Italy, and defeated the Lombards.
#Byzantium #Charlemagne #Franks #VenetianState #Venezia #Venice
Read more here: https://historywalksvenice.com/article/early-venice/venice-might-not-have-been/
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Why St Mark?
San Marco, or St Mark, is the patron saint of Venice since 828, and the Feast of St Mark on April 25th is an important day in Venice.
#why-venice #bocolo #saints #san-marco #st-mark #venetian-state #venezia #venice #winged-lion
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Long live the doge
Viva il doge - long live the doge.
It is not uncommon to find old writings and graffiti on the walls in Venice. Like in ancient Pompeii, the Venetians would write messages and proclamations on the walls of the city.
Some years ago, the Venetian writer Alberto Toso Fei found a hitherto unknown writing (in cocciopesto) on the side of the façade of the deconsecrated church of Santa Giustina.
The lower parts of the writing are mostly lost, but the first lines are readable.
The first line only contains the symbols W, a drawing of the doge's hat, and another W. W means viva, which is the exclamation "long live". The doge's hat, the corno ducale, refers to the doge as head of state.
#Doge #HeadOfState #VenetianState #Venezia #Venice
Read more here: https://historywalksvenice.com/article/curiosities/long-live-the-doge/