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1263 – Venetian victory against the Genoese and Byzantines at the Battle of Settepozzi; 1264 – The Genoese capture a Venetian trade convoy at the Battle of Saseno. 1266 – Venetian victory against the Genoese at the Battle of Trapani; 1268 Lorenzo Tiepolo is elected Doge; A ten-year peace treaty with Byzantium grants Venice trading privileges.
Compared to the Renaissance architecture of other Italian cities, in Venice there was a degree of conservatism, especially in retaining the overall form of buildings, which in the city were usually replacements on a confined site, and in windows, where arched or round tops, sometimes with a classicized version of the tracery of Venetian Gothic architecture, remained far more heavily used than ...
The Architectural History of Venice. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-09029-1. Gerhard Rösch (2002). "The Serrata of the Great Council and Venetian society, 1286-1323". In John Jeffries Martin; Dennis Romano (eds.). Venice Reconsidered: The History and Civilization of an Italian City-State, 1297–1797. Johns Hopkins University Press.
The "best book written to date on the Venetian Republic." Library Journal (2012). Garrett, Martin. Venice: A Cultural History (2006). Revised edition of Venice: A Cultural and Literary Companion (2001). Grubb, James S. (1986). "When Myths Lose Power: Four Decades of Venetian Historiography." Journal of Modern History 58, pp. 43–94. The ...
Venetian victory: 1379, May 7: Pola, Istria: War of Chioggia: Vettor Pisani — Genoese fleet under Luciano Doria: Genoese victory: 1380, June 24: Chioggia, Venetian Lagoon: War of Chioggia: Doge Andrea Contarini, Vettor Pisani, Carlo Zeno — Genoese fleet under Pietro Doria: Decisive Venetian victory, breaking of the siege of Venice
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, together with citizens and foreigners. Patrizio was the noble title of the members of the aristocracy ruling the city of Venice and the Republic.
The Domini di Terraferma, called Stato da Tera in the Venetian language, were made up of the territories of northern Italy conquered by the Republic of Venice, where in the event of war the command of the armies was assumed by the Superintendent General of Arms.
The Commune of Venice (Latin: Commune Veneciarum) is the title with which the government of the city of Venice and its Republic was designated from 1143. The municipality, similar to other medieval municipalities, was based on the popular power of the assembly, called Concio in Venice.