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The Republic of Venice, [a] officially the Most Serene Republic of Venice and traditionally known as La Serenìssima, [b] was a sovereign state and maritime republic with its capital in Venice. Founded, according to tradition, in 697 by Paolo Lucio Anafesto , over the course of its 1,100 years of history it established itself as one of the ...
The phrase La Serenissima ("The Most Serene") was also popularly used as a specific reference to the Venetian government or state authorities. [ 4 ] The Most Serene Republic of Genoa ( Ligurian : Serenìscima Repùbrica de Zêna ; Italian: Serenissima Repubblica di Genova ), an independent state based in present-day Liguria on the northwestern ...
La Serenissima (Italian), a name for the Republic of Venice Serenissima Res Publica Poloniae (Latin) , the official Latin name of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Art, entertainment, and media
The Signoria of Venice (Serenissima Signoria) was the supreme body of government of the Republic of Venice. The older Commune of Venice was replaced by the Signoria from 1423 on, being later officially adopted in the Promissione Ducale by Cristoforo Moro (12 May 1462). It constituted a center of power which included the doge's power.
Doges of Venice were elected for life by the city-state's aristocracy. The Venetian combination of elaborate monarchic pomp and a republican (though "aristocratic") constitution with intricate checks and balances makes "La serenissima" (Venice) a textbook example of a crowned republic.
The maritime republics (Italian: repubbliche marinare), also called merchant republics (Italian: repubbliche mercantili), were Italian thalassocratic port cities which, starting from the Middle Ages, enjoyed political autonomy and economic prosperity brought about by their maritime activities.
In the Republic of Venice (697–1797), also called "the Most Serene Republic" , "la Serenìsima Repùblega" in Venetian ("la Serenissima Repubblica" in Italian), the Doge was known as Serenissimus ("Most Serene") as was the Duke of Mantua. [2]
2 Latin (and Italian) adjective Serenissima is an absolute superlative (as Much Serene in English), not the relative suparlative (as Most Serene in English)