A Compendium of the History of All Nations: Exhibiting a Concise View of the Origin, Progress, Decline and Fall of the Most Considerable Empires, Kingdoms, and States of the World, from the Earliest Times to the Present Period. Interspersed with a Short Account of the Prevailing Religions. Ornamented with a Frontispiece... and Three Other Plates |
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... Doge : this dignity was elective , and held for life : he was even entrusted with the power of nominating to all offices , and of making peace and declaring war . Paul Luke Anafesto was the first duke , who was elected in the year 697 ...
... Doge : this dignity was elective , and held for life : he was even entrusted with the power of nominating to all offices , and of making peace and declaring war . Paul Luke Anafesto was the first duke , who was elected in the year 697 ...
Page 367
... doge , and instituting a variety of officers ( all of whom were , in a short time , chosen from among the nobility ) which effectually controlled both the prince and the people . Ziani was the first doge elected after the government had ...
... doge , and instituting a variety of officers ( all of whom were , in a short time , chosen from among the nobility ) which effectually controlled both the prince and the people . Ziani was the first doge elected after the government had ...
Page 368
... doge , and at this jun ture jealousy and envy occasioned the war with Genoa , which , after continuing a hundred and thirty years , was at last con- cluded by a treaty in 1381. During this war , doge Peter Gradonigo procured a law to be ...
... doge , and at this jun ture jealousy and envy occasioned the war with Genoa , which , after continuing a hundred and thirty years , was at last con- cluded by a treaty in 1381. During this war , doge Peter Gradonigo procured a law to be ...
Page 369
... doge named Marino Falliero , in the year 1355 , who at that time was eighty years of age ; but , conceiving a violent resentment against the senate , he formed a plan in order to assassi- nate the whole body . The design was timely ...
... doge named Marino Falliero , in the year 1355 , who at that time was eighty years of age ; but , conceiving a violent resentment against the senate , he formed a plan in order to assassi- nate the whole body . The design was timely ...
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... doge , or duke , the ceremony is conducted in the following manner : Upon the decease of a doge , the nobles above thirty years of age meet in the palace of St. Mark , where a number of balls , equal to that of the persons present , are ...
... doge , or duke , the ceremony is conducted in the following manner : Upon the decease of a doge , the nobles above thirty years of age meet in the palace of St. Mark , where a number of balls , equal to that of the persons present , are ...
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