- A doge (/doʊdʒ/ DOHJ, Italian: [ˈdɔːdʒe];
plural dogi or doges; see below) was an
elected lord and head of
state in
several Italian city-states, notably...
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after 1528 the
Doges were
elected for
terms of two years. The
Republic (or
Dogate) was
ruled by a
small group of
merchant families, from whom the
doges were...
- need for a
stable currency became increasingly urgent. In 1202,
during the
dogate of
Enrico Dandolo, the
minting of the
silver ducat (later
called matapan)...
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titulature was
substituted by 'and lord of the
lands and
islands subject to his
dogate' (dominus
terrarum et
insularum suo
ducatui subiectarum) or
similar formulations...
- on
public office. In the
first two
centuries from the
institution of the
Dogate for life in Genoa, it was
above all the
Adorno (seven
doges elected) and...
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became one of the
eligible candidates for Gradenigo's
succession to the
dogate. Meanwhile, the fate of the war had
created discontent within the nobility...
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governor of Treviso, and
three times as amb****ador to the Holy See. His
dogate was
marked by
major domestic reforms,
including the
codification of civil...
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Alessandro Spinola (Genoa, 1589 - Genoa, 1665) was the 112th Doge of the
Republic of
Genoa and king of Corsica. Born in
Genoa in 1589 and
member of the...
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Leonardo Cattaneo della Volta (1487 – 1572) was the 52nd Doge of the
Republic of Genoa. Son of
Angelo Cattaneo della Volta and
Maria Cattaneo di Quilico...
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Marco Corner, the brother-in-law of Mocenigo's
brother Nicolò. Mocenigo's
dogate was
troubled from the outset.
Within days of his election, a
plague began...
