In the 13th through 18th centuries, the Republic of Venice elected the Doge of Venice using a multi-stage process that featured random selection and voting which allowed approval of multiple candidates and required a supermajority.
Bertuccio Valiero (Venice, July 1, 1596 - Venice, March 29, 1658), 102nd Doge of Venice
A camauro was also part of the headdress of the Doge of Venice, worn under the corno ducale or stiff peaked cap.
There are two Jacobean chairs, and a richly inlaid one of cypress wood, the seat opening to form a chest; it is thought to be the throne of a Venetian Doge of the 14th century.
Francesco Sansovino described such a procession in minute detail in 1581, and his verbal description is confirmed and complemented by Cesare Vecellio's 1586 painting of a ducal procession in the Piazza San Marco.
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Apostolo Zeno, Compendio della storia Veneta, self-published, Venezia, 1847.
Little is known about his life, except that he was probably in Venice during the 1420s, for he wrote ceremonial music for Doge Francesco Foscari, and also his music appears in several collections from that city.
The ball's name derives from the title of the elected heads (Doge, Duke in English) who ruled Venice up until the fall of the Venetian republic in the 18th Century.
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Il Ballo del Doge (The Doge’s Ball) is the most elegant and exclusive Venetian masquerade ball, one of the many events held annually during the Carnival of Venice.
Johan Ernst was granted the rank and title of General by the Doge of Venice, Giovanni Bembo.
When the Doge of Venice, Pietro I Orseolo, accepted Romuald's advice to become a monk, abdicated his office, and fled in the night, it was to Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa that he retired, accompanied by Romuald and his companion, Marinus, who established a hermitage nearby.
The band takes its name from the sobriquet of Venice under the Doges, which was regarded as "The Most Serene Republic of Venice".
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Aloisio Gritti (d. 1534) was a son of Andrea Gritti, the Doge of Venice.
The doge of Venice, Francesco Foscari, was seriously considering helping Florence in their conflict against Milan, and Carmagnola spurred this on, persuading the doge to name him general in a new war against Milan.
Emperor Baldwin I was captured, Count Louis I of Blois was killed, and the Venetian Doge Enrico Dandolo led the surviving portions of the crusader army into a hasty retreat back to Constantinople, during the course of which he died of exhaustion.
Manin's name is now known to have belonged to the last doge of Venice, Ludovico Manin IV, who with dignity faced the dissolution of the Republic threatened by Napoleon Bonaparte, May 12, 1797 and presided over, the last session of the Grand Council that decreed the end, after more than eleven centuries of independence and glory.
During the night of 22 December 1379, under cover of darkness, the doge of Venice Andrea Contarini and Pisani blockaded Chioggia.
William's victory at Karydi, coupled with a victory of his troops against the Venetians near Oreoi, brought an effective end to the conflict; on 6 August 1258, Guglielmo da Verona and Narzotto dalle Carceri consented to begin negotiations for peace through the Doge of Venice, and in early 1259, the Doge authorized the new bailo, Andrea Barozzi, to sign a treaty with William.