Doge

One called thus the first Magistrat several Italian republics, particularly of Venice and Genoa.

Doges

Doge de Venise

With Venice, the doge had as principal attributions:
  • to decide the war or peace, to order the armies, to name with the civil and ecclesiastical functions, to chair the senate: but it could not take any resolution without the approval of the Conseil of the Ten. The currency was struck in the name of the doge, but not with his weapons; it could choose a wife elsewhere only in Venice. While entering in load it became engaged to the Adriatic Sea, use which undoubtedly referred to the empire that Venice had on the seas. The first doge was Paolo Lucio Anafesto (697), and the last, Ludovico Manin, which was in exercise when the République of Venice was conquered by the French weapons (1797). The Venetian doges most famous are the Dandolo, the Faliero, the Tiepolo and the Gradenigo.

Doges de Gênes

With Genoa, the dignity of doge was created in 1339 and was initially conferred on life, the very first doge was Simon Boccanegra; the doge was to be of plebeian family and the faction Gibelin E. Among these perpetual doges: names of Guarco, Montaldo, Fregoso and Adorno, families in perpetual fight which failed several times to plunge the Republic in chaos.

In 1528, Andrea Doria made issue that one would elect a new doge every two years and that it would be selected among the aristocratic families (28), this doge was to share the capacity with a council of 400 members, the Senate, selected in the nobility and a critic and two consuls. The Spinola, the Doria, the Grimaldi, the Imperiali, the Durazzo, the Ealbi, the Pallavicino but also Lomellini, Brignole Dirty, Sauli are most famous of these last doges. Genoa ceased having doges in 1797, the last was Giacomo Maria Brignole Sale, only doge elected twice, in 1779 and 1795, at the time of the occupation of this republic by the French years.

Source

External bonds

  • Solomon Reinach, the marriage with the sea, Worships, myths and religions , T. II, ED. Ernest Leroux, Paris, 1906, pp. 206-219.

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