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The doge, senate, and government of Venice were then excommunicated and the entire Republic placed under interdict.
The roundels in the center show a doge kneeling before an enthroned Saint Mark and a seated, robed figure with the right hand raised, presumably in blessing.
The public funeral, began a few days later with the display of an effigy of the deceased doge in the ducal palace.
For a visit to the old doge city Venice, you can easily take the boat from Chioggia, which will take you there quickly.
A Minor Council of six members exercised executive powers alongside the doge, and magistrates were granted administrative and judicial functions.
Soon after his election as doge in 1423, he made an alliance with Florence and began a war against the duke of Milan, Filippo Maria Visconti.
In 840 a treaty between Charlemagne's grandson Lothair and the doge of Venice, protected Venice's neutrality and guaranteed its security from the mainland.
Venice was contemptuously swept away by Napoleon, and the last doge voted himself out of office.
The Republic of Venice was ruled from 697 to 1797 by a doge, who normally ruled for life, though a few were forced from office.
On 26 September 1687, while the Venetian doge Francesco Morosini was besieging the Acropolis where the Turks had taken refuge, a Venetian shell fell on the Parthenon, which housed a gunpowder magazine.
An unsigned letter to the doge denounced public venality and private immorality, calling for repentance before the tide of Turkish success could be checked.
William Chubb is contrastingly frosty as the cardinal and Tim McInnerny, as the doge, is fantastically volatile, sometime cool as a cucumber, sometimes a sweating bag of nerves.
These developments left the doge with little personal power and put actual authority in the hands of the Great Council.
With his impatient expression, sweptback hair, barbered goatee and long, hawkish face, he looks like a Venetian doge, unhappy about the latest tax reports and getting ready to order some executions.
The Napoleonic Wars put an end to the office of doge at Genoa.
In the thirteenth century, a new method of appointing the doge, by the famous ballot of Venice, a complicated mixture of choice and chance, was adopted.
Following these events of August, the representative of Venice in England reported to the doge that the London government took considerable measures to stifle dissent.
In 1461, Paolo Fregoso, archbishop of Genoa, enticed the current doge to his own palace, held him hostage and offered him the choice of retiring from the post or being hanged.
In 1223, these institutions were combined into the Signoria, which consisted of the doge, the Minor Council, and the three leaders of the Quarantia.
A Byzantine fleet sailed to Venice in 807 and deposed the Doge, replacing him with a Byzantine governor.
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Byron's doge is almost, if not quite, as unhistorical as his Bonivard or his Mazeppa.
One would say that he was a doge of Venice on his way to his bridal with the sea.
We dined, and I was then conducted to the palace of the doge, where the tribunals are now held.
The slight made him feel angry at himself as much as at the doge.
On high, amid all this grotesqueness, sits the departed doge.
The monument to the doge Giovanni Pesaro, in this church, is a curiosity in the way of mortuary adornment.
We alighted at the palace of the doge, and proceeded to the prisons.
The doge started in astonishment at this bold and unexpected request.
Flodoardo eyed the doge, and waited for his decision with impatience.
He that marries is like the doge who was wedded to the Adriatic.
Steno was accused before the Quarantia and let off with a punishment which the Doge regarded as derisory.
Only a single member might be taken from any one family, and the forty elected the Doge by an absolute majority of votes.
The Doge agreed to furnish a fleet, and by successful strategy Ravenna was surprised and recaptured and the exarchate restored.
An embassage from the Doge of Venice had brightened the harbor with their galleys.
The Doge himself, seventy-two years and all, reared his gonfalon of gold in the Piazza and decided to lead the armament.
And be it noted, that the vicar is obliged to give to the Doge two flasks of malvoisie, with two oranges besides.
Marini looks the Doge and wears the ducal robe with great dignity and success.
He demanded that they should send their Doge, or chief magistrate, accompanied by four of their senators, to FRANCE, to ask his pardon and receive his terms.
This Spade-beard is a very noted captain, and it is his boast that there are no seamen and no archers in the world who can compare with those who serve the Doge Boccanegra.
Equipment list includes Doge dump truck, pile driving barge, smaller barge, and two trailers-one for the barge and one for pile driver.
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