Nevertheless, for Contarini, a lawmaker and diplomat, his beloved Republic of Venice offered an alternative: a dazzling and enduring model of self-government. “For this reason," he said ...

As it’s known, the Most Serene Republic of Venice, that mighty maritime state born in the 8th century (independent since the 9th) and lasting until the late 18th century, was governed by a series of ...

VENICE, Italy (AP ... after it escaped a downgrade two years ago when the Rome government enacted a ban on cruise ships off St. Mark’s Square and in the Giudecca canal.

A major contribution to the history of political ideas, the book had considerable influence on the thinking of later political theorists, including some of the Founding Fathers, who looked to Venice ...

The Doge’s Palace (Palazzo Ducale), a masterpiece of Gothic architecture situated in San Marco, formerly served as the seat of the Venetian government ... Republic. One of Venice’s most ...

Not far from the American Wing there has now been installed the room from the Sagredo Palace in Venice. This bedroom ... never of the front rank in that republic, never of the Contarini’s ...

There were three classes in the Venetian Republic ... with no appeals. Venice puzzled foreign observers during the old regime, for the government was neither monarchy nor democracy nor, exactly ...

When it felt like it,this government was capable of intimidating ... At age 73, Casanova died in 1798, a year after the Republic of Venice fell to Napoleon Bonaparte. Isolated and depressed ...