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Venetian nobility. Coat of arms of the Republic of Venice, featuring the Lion of Saint Mark. The Great Council in a voting session at the Doge's Palace, 1648. The Venetian patriciate (Italian: Patriziato veneziano, Venetian: Patrisiato venesian) was one of the three social bodies into which the society of the Republic of Venice was divided ...
Great Council of Venice. The Great Council or Major Council (Italian: Maggior Consiglio; Venetian: Mazor Consegio) was a political organ of the Republic of Venice between 1172 and 1797. It was the chief political assembly, responsible for electing many of the other political offices and the senior councils that ran the Republic, passing laws ...
Economic history of Venice. Venice, which is situated at the north end of the Adriatic Sea, was for hundreds of years the richest and most powerful centre of Europe, the reason being that it gained large-scale profits from the adjacent middle European markets. Venice was the major centre of trade with the Arabs and indirectly the Indians during ...
The Brandolini (or, in Venetian language, Brandolin, earlier de Brandoli) is a noble family of ancient Forlì origins. In Forlì the Brandolini obtained the title of patricians, while in Bagnacavallo (in the Ravenna area) they achieved lordship; a branch, starting with Brandolino Count Brandolini, distinguished itself in Veneto as feudal lords of Valmareno under the Serenissima.
Coat of arms of the Kingdom of Italy (House of Savoy). The nobility of Italy (Italian: Nobiltà italiana) comprised individuals and their families of the Italian Peninsula, and the islands linked with it, recognized by the sovereigns of the Italian city-states since the Middle Ages, and by the kings of Italy after the unification of the region into a single state, the Kingdom of Italy.
The Council of Ten (Italian: Consiglio dei Dieci; Venetian: Consejo de i Diexe), or simply the Ten, was from 1310 to 1797 one of the major governing bodies of the Republic of Venice. Elections took place annually and the Council of Ten had the power to impose punishments upon patricians. The Council of Ten had a broad jurisdictional mandate ...
The Minor Council was established likely sometime between 1172 and 1178, [1] shortly after the Great Council. [2] Both councils had their antecedents in a 'council of wise men' (consilium sapientes) that the Venetian patriciate had placed next to the Doge to advise him and curtail his independent authority, and is attested at least since 1143.
B. Badoer family (19 P) Barbarigo family (14 P) Barbo family (17 P) Barozzi family (11 P) Bembo family (7 P) Bragadin family (5 P)