- 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...
- 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)...
-
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...
- 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...
-
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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Pietro Loredan (1372 – 28
October 1438) was a
Venetian nobleman of the
Loredan family and a
distinguished military commander both on sea and on land. He...
-
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...
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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...
-
reconstruction of the city
after the
French naval bombardment of 1684.
After the
dogate ended on 27
August 1689 he
continued to
serve the
Genoese state in ****ignments...
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Staircase revealed that the
right side of the
Foscari Arch,
built under the
dogates of
Francesco Foscari and
Cristoforo Moro and at the same time as the aforementioned...
