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La Serenissima Republica di Venezia: La Corte Ducale di Venezia
La Serenissima Republica di Venezia La Corte Ducale di Venezia  Doge di Venezia e Francesco Foscari LXV Doge di Venezia - Statistici di Venezia venetian statistics  Nation:Venice Head of State:Doge Francesco Foscari Player:Ramius Religion:Catholic Culture:Italian, Greek, Slavonic, Mongol Stats:3/3/5/5/5(8) --> [12/3/6/5/2 (+1 loans owed, -6 loans owe)] Provinces:7 Ports:6 Owned:Veneto, Istria, Dalmatia,Crete, Dobrudja Annexation of Trebizond (max. tech reached) Bulgarian Overlord +1 economy Macedonian Overlord +1 economy Lounge Penalty -1 Morale Loan to Lithuania -1 eco Loan from Piemonte +2 eco Loan from England +2 eco Loan from Gelre +1 eco Loan from Macedonia +1 eco La Serenissima Republica di Venezia - La Corte Ducale di Venezia
History - General Historical Background - Doge di Venezia I. Paoluccio AnafestoTrade and Finance - Merchant Guilds - Lusso mercanzia di Veneto- Coinage
Military - Armed Ground Forces - Naval Forces - Military Statistics Domestic and Foreign Politics - Domestic Politics - Council of Ten- Foreign Diplomats - Domestic Diplomats Lands Held - Veneto Religion Alliances, Treaties, Pacts, Concessions and Agreements
__________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ - Introduzione di Venezia introduction Venice, a city and seaport of Italy, occupying one of the most remarkable sites in the world. At the head of the Adriatic, between the mountains and' the sea, lies that part of the Lombard plain known as the Veneto. The whole of this plain has been formed by the dtbris swept down from the Alps by the rivers Po, Ticino, Oglio, Adda, Mincio, Adige, Brenta, Piave, Livenza, Tagliamento and Isonzo. The substratum of the plain is a bed of boulders, covered during the lapse of ages by a deposit of rich alluvial soil. The rivers when they debouch from the mountains assume an eastern trend in their effort to reach the sea. The result is that the plain is being gradually extended in an easterly direction, and cities like Ravenna, Adria and Aquileia, which were once seaports, lie now many miles inland. It would be difficult to imagine a site less adapted for the foundation and growth of a great community. The soil is an oozy mud which can only be made capable of carrying buildings by the artificial means of pile-driving; there is no land fit for agriculture or the rearing of cattle; the sole food supply is, fish and there is no drinking-water save such as could be stored from the rainfall. Yet the group of islands called Rialto, were first the asylum and then the magnificent and permanent home of a race that took a prominent part in the medieval and Renaissance history of Europe. The local drawbacks and difficulties once surmounted, Venice by her geographical position became the seaport nearest the heart of Europe and would become the greatest power the world had seen. Importanti Personi di Venezia - Doge Francesco Foscari - 1401 - Angelina Tessio Foscari - 1412 - Maria Tessio Foscari - 1435 - Isabella Mendieto Foscari - 1428 - Stefano Foscari - 1427 - Giuseppe Foscari - 1420 - Franco Berlusconi - 1407 - Antonio Cornari - 1409 - Signiore Michele Bosco - 1390 - Leo Nucci Signiore Nero - birthdate unknown
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- General Historical Background 452 During Attila the Hun's brutal Italian invasion in 452, the population of the countryside fled before his army. Many sought refuge on the small islands in the lagoons lining the western coast of the Adriatic, augmenting the fisherman population that already lived there. Although many of the refugees returned to their mainland homes after Attila's withdrawal, the origin of the future island colossus of Venice is often traced to the migration caused by Attila's invasion.  466 After the withdrawal of the forces of Attila the Hun in late 452, many of the refugees who had fled to the safety of the islands in the Venetian lagoon chose to return to the homes they had left on the mainland. Others, however, especially those who had little to return to, remained on the islands of the lagoon, such as Torcello, Burano and Malamocco. By 466 a consensus emerged as to the need for some basic system of governance. In that year twelve of the communities agreed to form a council of their representatives, who would be selected annually. The first small step toward self-government was not intended to affect the established sovereignty of the Roman Empire, centered by then in far-away Constantinople.  568 The Lombard invasion, 568, like the Hun invasion of little more than 100 years earlier, sent an influx of refugees streaming to the islands of the Venetian lagoon for sanctuary. Unlike the Huns, however, the Lombards had come to stay, establishing an Italian kingdom based in Pavia in north central Italy. As a result, with their mainland settlements permanently occupied by the invaders, more of the refugees elected to stay as permanent residents of the lagoon. 727 Venetian tradition places the election of the Republic's first Doge in 697, supposedly at a convocation in Heraclea called by the Patriarch of Grado. That account seems to hopelessly confuse the role of several early figures who were merely provincial Byzantine officials. The actual event must be found 30 years later. In 726 a wave of unrest swept through the communities of Italy that remained subject to the Byzantine Empire. The cause was ostensibly a religious issue-a decree by the Byzantine emperor forbidding the use of icons and holy images and requiring their destruction-but other simmering frustrations must have fuelled the controversy as well. The anomoly of the decree was that, while most of the Byzantine Empire answered to the Greek Orthodox church headed by the Patriarch at Constantinople, the Italian portion of the Empire remained loyal to the Pope at Rome. Encouraged by Pope Gregory II, the Italian cities quickly began to claim independence from Byzantium and elect their own local leaders. The rebellious period passed quickly, as it became clear that the Byzantine emperor's decree would have no real force in the West and that at least nominal sovereignty by the Byzantine Empire was valuable in keeping the Lombards at bay. The entire episode might have passed with little note in history were it not for the particular result at Venice. The leader elected there in 727 with the Latin title of Dux (Doge) was Orso Ipato. The process of electing a local Doge was continued after his death in 737, making him the first elected leader of a republic that was to survive almost 1,100 years, which happens to be the longest lived republic in history. 1000 Primarily through trade, but also through occasional careful use of force, Venice by the year 1000 had extended its area of influence across the Northern end of the Adriatic Sea, encompassing the Istrian penninsula on the opposite shore. Thus, the Bay of Venice became a safe haven for pervasive Venetian shipping. The mid part of the Adriatic, however, remained a difficult and unprotected no-man's-land for Venetian ships. South of Istria, along the Dalmatia coast, Slavic invaders from the upper Balkans had seized control of the area where the Narenta River enters the Adriatic, as well as the islands such as Lesina, Curzola and Lagosta that lay in the river's delta and protected its mouth. From that stronghold the Slavs launched incessant pirate raids on Venetian merchant ships that attempted to run their gauntlet and reach the Mediterranean. Sometimes the Slavs were joined by marauding vessels from former Roman cities of the upper Dalmatia coast, such as Zara and Spalato; at other times the Slavs preyed on those other Dalmatians as well. After several unsuccessful, and sometimes disastrous, military attacks on the Dalmatian pirates from the late 9th to the mid-10th century, the Venetian merchants expediently arranged to simply pay the Dalmatians an annual tribute for safe passage of their Venetian ships. From the time of his election as Doge in 991, Doge Pietro II Orseolo wove a net of diplomacy through the Northern Adriatic and upper coast of Dalmatia as a foundation for the total extinction of the Dalmatian pirates and Venice's first major territorial expansion.  1204 No one has ever doubted that Doge Enrico Dandolo, the 39th Doge of Venice, was clever. His audacious appropriation of the forces of the Fourth Crusade to serve the ambitions of Venice is irrefutable evidence that he was a master of intrigue. The only question is whether he planned the events of 1201-1204 from the beginning or merely reacted brilliantly to opportunities as they unfolded. In the First Crusade of a hundred years earlier the Europeans had captured Jerusalem, Acre, Tyre and other cities of the Holy Land and installed a Frankish monarch to govern the new kingdom. In the intervening period the Saracens had recaptured the territory and successfully defended it against the forces of the Second and Third Crusades (except for Acre, which was recovered by the Europeans in the Third Crusade). By 1200, under the urging of Pope Innocent, leadership had emerged in France and Germany for a Fourth Crusade to be launched with a new strategy. The new plan was to attack the Saracens from the opposite direction, travelling by ship to Egypt and marching eastward and northward from there to the Holy Land. Only Venice had the resources for transporting an army such as the one the French and German leaders envisioned. In 1201 a delegation from the north arrived at Venice to commission construction of a new fleet of warships and transports for the enterprise. Venice agreed to supply, at a cost of 84,000 marks, transportation and nine months of provisions for a Crusader army of 4,500 knights and 19,000 squires and foot-soldiers. Moreover, Venice agreed to supply fifty additional galleys on her own, in exchange for the promise of one-half of any territory captured on the Crusade. June 1202 was set as the time for the Crusaders to gather at Venice, pay for the fleet and embark for the attack on Egypt. Did Doge Dandolo and the Venetians foresee already that the Crusaders had badly overestimated the size and financial resources of the army that they would gather? The evidence suggests that Dandolo may have already been working a separate agenda: at the same time that arrangements with the Crusaders were being concluded, Venice was also negotiating a treaty with Egypt that almost certainly included a mutual promise of non-aggression. Only in the following year did Venice's individual goals begin to surface.  1255-1380 While Venice grew into a maritime power at the head of the Adriatic Sea, on the opposite coast of the Italian peninsula Genoa emerged as the maritime power of the Ligurian Sea and later of the Tyrrhenian Sea as well. In the 1100s and 1200s, as Venice and Genoa began to project their power beyond their home waters and into the trade routes of the eastern Mediterranean, their interests began increasingly to clash. A seesaw struggle for influence and exclusivity in various markets, such as Constantinople and Acre, erupted in periodic violence between naval forces of the two cities. Finally, their commercial rivalry in the East led them into four exhausting and ultimately inconclusive wars over a period of 125 years. The last of the wars reached its climax in the Venetian lagoon itself and -- until a dramatic reversal of fortune -- threatened the life of the Venetian Republic. The first two Genoese Wars (1255-1270, 1294-9) produced naval victories for each side in an almost random pattern. On balance, the first war favored the Venetians and the second the Genoese. Fifty years of relative peace ensued, the belligerants heavily occupied by other challenges, including awesome onslaughts of plague. The Third Genoese War (1351-5) began well for the Venetians but ended badly. Control of the Genoa government, however, had passed to the Visconti family of Milan, and Venice was able to negotiate a better peace treaty than its military posture would have suggested. From one point of view the Fourth Genoese War (1378-81), called the War of Chioggia, can be viewed as a defeat for the Venetians, but Venice's dramatic and climactic victory at Chioggia, 1379-80, pulled defeat from the jaws of complete disaster.  1239-1388 For hundreds of years Venice remained an island city-state without any territory on the Italian mainland that adjoined her lagoon. The vast and powerful empire that she had assembled all lay to the east: coastal cities and fortresses throughout the eastern Mediterranean and along the southern coast of the Black Sea and eastern coast of the Adriatic. Though a new empire on the Italian mainland itself was perhaps inevitable, events there began to unfold in a climate of danger and defense rather than imperialistic fervor. In the early years of the 1300s the Della Scala family, rulers of Verona, a city-state lying about fifty miles west of the Venetian lagoon, had begun an aggressive expansion of their territory. Vicenza, Feltre, Belluno all fell before their forces. They captured Padua--just 25 miles from Venice--in September 1328 and in July of the following year seized Treviso, whose territory reached the shores of the Venetian lagoon itself. To the west and south the Veronese captured Brescia, Parma and Lucca. The rising tide of the Della Scala empire threatened the survival of Venice as an independent state. Nonetheless, Venice was reluctant to undertake a military campaign on the mainland. Finally, seeing no alternative, Venice launched a preemptive attack into Paduan territory in October 1336. Her initial success soon brought Milan, Mantua, Este and Florence into a military alliance with her. By August of 1337 Padua had been captured, and a peace treaty with the Della Scalas was signed in the following January. The treaty ceded Padua, Treviso and their territories to Venice. Cautious about how much territory she could effectively control, and obligated to reward the Carrara family of Padua for its assistance in the successful military campaign, the Venetians placed Padua and the western portion of the Trevisan territory under Carrara rule, subject to the nominal sovereignty of Venice. At last Venice was a mainland empire as well as a maritime power. However, more fighting lay ahead to retain the new territory, because the Carraras of Padua were treacherous allies who soon tested Venice's ability and resolve to remain on the mainland.  1404 In 1388 the Venetian Republic had allied herself with the Visconti family of Milan in order to dispossess Venice's long-time nemesis, the Carrara family from control of Padua--its base--and the adjacent cities and territories of Treviso, Vicenza and Verona. Venice regained control of Treviso and Milan acquired Padua, Vicenza and Verona. For Venice the alliance with Milan had been an expedient way to dispose of the Carraras and regain Treviso, but Milan and the Viscontis would always be perilous neighbors. Therefore, in 1390 Venice did not hesitate to assist an army organized by the Carraras, in conjunction with Florence and Bologna, in its successful effort to expel the Milanese forces from Padua. Back in power, the Carraras soon proved themselves to be as intractable as ever. With Milan in disarray following the sudden death of its dynamic leader, Gian Galeazzo Visconti, the Carraras returned to their former threatening ways and launched an attack by Padua against its neighboring city of Vicenza, still under Milanese control. Milan cunningly offered to transfer both Vicenza and neighboring Verona to Venice if Venice would act to halt the westward advance of the Carraras' Paduan forces. Venice, now an implacable enemy of the Carraras, seized the opportunity. The Venetian army captured Padua in November 1404 following a brief siege. Francesco Carrara and his son Jacopo were captured and soon executed. In a stroke the Venetians had eliminated the Carraras and extended their mainland territory to include Padua, Vicenza and Verona. Venice was now a major power on the Italian mainland.  1420 For more than 300 years the Patriarch of Aquileia, who was a Prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, had ruled Friuli, the region north of Venice along the Adriatic coast, as a temporal fief. Abetted by the Counts of Gorizia, the Patriarch frequently sided with the King of Hungary, his eastern neighbor, in Hungary's recurring disputes with Venice. Finally, in 1418 a major dispute erupted between Venice and the King of Hungary over sovereignty of Dalmatia, the region lying opposite Venice on the eastern coast of the Adriatic. The Patriarch rashly decided to personally lead an invading Hungarian army attacking Venice from the north through Friuli. With the assistance of a dissident Friulano military commander, Venetian forces quickly seized the initiative, capturing Feltre and Belluno. By 1420 the Patriarch found his forces hemmed up and besieged at Udine. His calls to the Hungarian king for reinforcement were futile, because the King was by then embroiled in other serious military challenges in Bohemia in the west and with the Turks on his eastern flank. The fall of Udine left the Patriarch no alternative to accepting a humiliating peace. He ceded to Venice all of Friuli, except for Aquileia itself and two other towns. Gorizia also agreed to Venetian sovereignty. Venice had succeeded in doubling the size of her mainland territory in a single campaign. At the same time, a naval expedition reestablished Venetian control of the Dalmatian coast, resolving the issue that had precipitated the war in Friuli.  - Doge di Venezia I. Paoluccio Anafesto (697-717)
References: Virtual History of Venice
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Trade and Fiance
- Merchant Guilds These differed from their predecessors, the religious or frith guilds, by being established primarily for the purpose of obtaining and maintaining the privilege of carrying on trade. Having secured this privilege the guilds guarded their monopoly jealously. Everywhere the right to buy and sell articles of food seems to have been left free, but every other branch of trade was regulated by the merchant guild. The merchant guilds possessed extensive powers, including the control and monopoly of all the trades in the town, which involved the power of finding all traders who were not members of the guild for illicit trading, and of inflicting punishment for all breaches of honesty or offences against the regulations of the guild. They also had liberty of trading in other towns and of protecting their guildsmen wherever they were trading. They exercised supervision over the quality of goods sold, and prevented strangers from directly or indirectly buying or selling to the injury of the guild. Besides these commercial advantages the guild entered largely into the life of all its members. The guildsmen took their part as a corporate body in all religious celebrations in the town, organized festivities, provided for sick or impoverished brethren, undertook the care of their orphan children, and provided for Masses and dirges for deceased members. As time went on the merchant guilds became more exclusive, and when the rise of manufactures in the twelfth century caused an increase in the number of craftsmen, it was natural that these should organize on their own account and form their own guilds. The members paid each a certain contribution to the common fund; they pledged their word to give one another assistance; they took care of the children of the deceased members and had Masses offered up for the repose of their souls; they celebrated the patron saint's day with great festivities in which the poor had their share. - Coinage Louis the Pious (814-840) Pietro Ziani (1205-1229) 42nd Doge Ranieri Zeno (1253-1268) 45th Doge Lorenzo Tiepolo (1268-75) 46th Doge Giapolo Contarini (1275-80) 47th Doge Giovanni Dandolo (1280-89) 48th Doge Antonio Veniero (1382-1400) 62nd Doge Francesco Foscari (1423-57) 65th Doge
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- Armed Ground Forces The Venetian Army : 30,000 Soldiers (3 Land mil.)_________________________ Grand General Gervasio Venier, Commander of all Venetian land forces.- Naval Forces The Venetian Navy : 300 Warships (3 Sea mil)_________________________ Admirale Cosimo Anglano, Commander of all Venetian fleets._________________________ - Military Statistics The Sophistication of our War Engines : 5 (5 Tech)
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- Domestic Politics and Politicians The Venetian political system is formed of a Grand Council (higher court) and a lower court. The Grand Council was composed of 480 members taken from certain families. The Council of Ten was then called as the main judiciary committee of Venezia and made the major decisions. The Council of Ten was acutally made up of 17 members?the Doge, 10 members chosen by the grand council, and 6 elected by the lesser council. The Council of Ten In 1310 a special tribunal was created to avert plots and crimes against the state. The election of the doge was reserved to the Greater Council, composed of 480 members taken from certain families. The doge could do nothing without his councillors the obligation of the office were restated afresh for every new doge, and he must swear to observe them. Affairs of greater moment were discussed by councillors, who invited a certain number of members of the Council (pregadi) of whom the Senate was afterwards constituted. In 1297 it was enacted that only those who had sat in the Greater Council and their descendants should be eligible; thus was formed an aristocracy which monopolized the offices of State. The conspiracy of Boemondo Tiepolo (1310), for the restoration of democratic government, was repressed by the Doge Pietro Gradenigo (1289-1311). the Council of Ten was instituted to guard the existing constitution, and the most important matters were afterwards reserved to it. In 1335 the body was given permanent status. It consisted actually of 17 members. As the power of the Council of Ten expanded, it came to control foreign relations and financial matters. The mystery that veiled its operations give it an aura of tyrannical despotism, it is in general an efficient and highly effective body.
Grand Iquisitors Three members served as inquisitors of state and investigated, by means of a secret police, all criminal, moral, religious, and political offenses. The inquisitors reported their findings to the Ten, who rendered an irrevocable verdict.
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Religion Diocese of Vicenza The city is the capital of a province in Venetia. The surrounding country is agricultural, but there are also quarries of marble, sulphur, copper, and silver mines, and beds of lignite and kaolin; mineral springs also abound, the most famous being those of Recoaro. Among the industries worthy of mention are the woollen and silk, pottery, and musical instruments. The cathedral, dating from early in the eleventh century, and restored in the thirteenth, sixteenth, and nineteenth, possesses numerous pictures and sculptures, nearly all of them by Vicentine artists (Cittadello, Celestia, Liberi, Ruschi). The Church of the Ara Coeli (1244), formerly belonging to the Clarisses, contains statutes by Marinali and Cassetti, and paintings by Tiepolo. The Churches of the Carmine (1372) and S. Caterina (1292), formerly belonging to the Humiliati, possess notable pictures. S. Corona (1260) was built by the Dominicans after the death of Ezzelino, and is pictures by Montagna ("The Magdelene") and Relline ("Baptism of Christ"). Other churches are: S. Croce (1179), SS. Felice e Fortunato (eighth century), SS. Filippo e Giacomo (twelfth century), S. Lorenzo of the Friars Minor (1280), in the Gothic style, contains the tombs of many illustrious Vicentines. In the cloister of S. Maria of the Servites (1319) took place the miracles of St. Philip Benizi de Damiani. The most remarkable secular buildings are the theatre, built by Palladio in 15890 for the Accademia degli Olimpici, and the Basilica--the building itself Gothic of 1444, though Palladio built the outer portico in two orders. Near the latter are the clock tower (1224-1446), 268 feet in height, and the Rotondo, another work of Palladio's (1570), with four porticoes. There are numerous private palaces which were transformed by Palladio and his pupils. A special feature is the multitude of towers which still remain. The Communal Library was founded by Count Giovanni M. Bertolo. The Museum contains a picture-gallery exclusively devoted to Vicentine painters. Of the philanthropic institutions many, like the hospital, date back to the fourteenth century, others to the fifteenth. Vicentia was a city of the Veneti, from whom it was taken by the Gauls. In Roman times it was of little importance, though it had the franchise in 45 B.C. It suffered by the incursions of the Goths and the Huns, but is not mentioned in connection with the Gothic War. In the eighth century we find a Lombard Duke of Vicenza. When the Othos handed over the government of the city to the bishop, its communal organization had an opportunity to develop, and separated itself from the episcopal authority. It took an active part in the Lombard League, compelling Padua and Treviso to join, and its podesta, Ezzelino III, il Balbo, was captain of the league. When peace was restored, however, the old rivalry with Padua, Bassano, and other cities was renewed, besides which there were the internal factions of the Vivaresi (Ghibellines) and the Maltraversi (Guelphs). The tyrannical Ezzelino IV drove the Guelphs out of Vicenza, and caused his brother, Alberico, to be elected podesta (1230). The city joined the Second Lombard League against Frederick II, and was sacked by that monarch (1237), after which it formed part of Ezzelino's dominions. On his death the old government was restored--a consiglio maggiore of four hundred members and a consiglio minore of forty members--and formed a league with Padua, Treviso, and Verona. Three years later the Vicentines entrusted the protection of the city to Padua, so as to safeguard republican liberty; but this protectorate (custodia) quickly became dominion, and for that reason Vicenza in 1311 voluntarily submitted to the Scaligeri of Verona. In 1404 it submitted to Venice, and thenceforward shared the history of that republic. It was beseiged by the Emperor Sigismund, and Maximilian I held possession of it in 1509 and 1516. In 1848 it rose against Austria, but was recovered after a stubborn resistance. Vicenza was the native city of the historian Ferreto dei Ferreti (fourteenth century), the peot Trissino (1478-1553), the traveller Pigafetta, companion of Magalhaes, the architects Palladio and Scamazzi, and the engraver Valerio Belli. Among its patron saints the city venerates St. Lontius, bishop and martyr, and Sts. Theodore and Apollonius, bishops and confessors in the fourth century. The Christian cemetery discovered recently near the Church of Sts. Felix and Fortunatus, dates from the earlier half of the fourth century, and these two saints were probably martyred under Diocletian. The first bishop of whom there is any certain record is Horontius (590), a partisan of the Schism of the Three Chapters. Other bishops were: Vitalis (901), high chancellor of King Berengarius: Girolano (1000), deposed by Henry II for political sedition; Torengo, in whose episcopate a number of bishops rebelled against the episcopal authority; Blessed Giovanni Ccciafronte (1179-85), a Benedictine, slain by one of his own vassals. Uberto was deposed by Innocent III as a despoiler of church property, but the canons put off until 1219 the election of his successor, Gilberto, who was forced by the tyranny of Ezzelino to live in exile. Blessed Bartolommeo da Breganze (1256), a Dominican, had previously been Bishop of Nicosia, in Cyprus, and legate in Syria. Under Bishop Emiliani (1409) took place the apparition of the Blessed Virgin on Monte Berico which led to the foundation of the famous sanctuary, 3280 feet above the sea level. Pietro Barbo (1451) was afterwards Pope Paul II. Cardinal Giovanni Battista Zeno (1468) was distinguished for his sanctity and learning. Matteo Priuli (1563) founded the seminary and made efforts for reform. Alvise M. Ganrielli (1779) restored many churches and the seminary. The See of Vicenza was suffragan of Aquilcia, then of Udine, and since 1818 of Venice. The diocese contains: 219 parishes, with 477,000 souls; 699 secular and 39 regular priests; 10 houses of male religious and 52 sisters; 4 schools for boys, and 52 for girls. _________________ Pietro Barbo  Born at Venice, 1390; elected 30 August, 1440; died 26 July, 1445; son of Niccolo Barbo and Polixena Condulmer, sister of Eugene IV. Although he studied for a business career he received an excellent religious education and, at the elevation of his uncle to the papacy, entered the ecclesiastical state. He became Archdeacon of Bologna, Bishop of Cervia and of Vicenza, and in 1440 cardinal-deacon. Noted for his generosity and imposing appearance, the Cardinal of Venice, as he was called, was very influential under Eugene IV, Nicholas V, and Calixtus III, less so under Pius II. He became the latter's successor, and owed his election partly to the dissatisfaction of some of the cardinals with the policy of his predecessor. To this could be traced the oath which Barbo swore to at the conclave, but which he rightfully set aside after election, since it was opposed to the monarchial constitution of the Church. Paul II delighted in display. He introduced splendid carnival festivities, built the palace of S. Marco (now di Venezia), revised the municipal statutes of Rome, organized relief work among the poor, granted pensions to some cardinals, and to all the privilege of wearing the red biretta. His suppression in 1466 of the college of abbreviators aroused much opposition, intensified by a similar measure against the Roman Academy. Platina, a member of both organizations, who had been repeatedly imprisoned, retaliated by writing a calumnious biography of Paul II. That Paul II was not opposed to Humanistic studies, as such, is evidenced by the fact that he protected universities, encouraged the art of printing, and was himself a collector of works of ancient art. The suppression of the Roman Academy was justified by the moral degeneracy and pagan attitude which it fostered. On the other hand the charge of immorality brought against Paul II by Gregory of Heimburg is untenable. The pope punished the Fraticelli in the Papal States, prosecuted heretics in France and Germany, decreed in 1470 the observance of the jubilee every twenty-five years, and made an unsuccessful attempt at uniting Russia with the Church. The Turkish question received his earnest attention, particularly after the fall of Negropont (1470). Financial assistance was granted to Hungary and the Albanian leader Scanderbeg. No general results were obtained, however, owing to the lack of co-operation among the Christian powers; to disturbances in the Papal States, where Paul II suppressed the robber knights of Anguillara, and perhaps chiefly to the conflict between the papacy and King George Podiebrad of Bohemia. Valerio Belli  Born at Venice, 1417; elected 30 August, 1445; died 26 July, 1471;
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A man in the fashion of Zaragoza arrived at the court after taking alot of boat riding. He walked to the Doge and bowed. He then spoke,
I am Don Juan de Pueblo, ambassador to this court from Aragon. King Constantine is gladden to see that Venice is reopened to teh world once again. He wishes to establish a close friendship and trade with Venice. Would you accept me at this court, your highness? King hopes that venice and Aragon would be friends and great trade partners. He wonders of what is the correct way to call a Doge. He doesn't think that hey boy is a proper way to address a doge unlike, the dog.
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Kurt von Eberholt-Junosza was always in high regard in the House of the Greif, thus he was sent on this difficult yet pleasant mission. His Lord gave him important diplomatic task while his family gave him enough money to invest in the new Venetian enterprises. So far everthing was going just good, Genoan imperium was collapsing and Venetian importance was growing again. However, while his informal, economical part of mission was proceding excellent he had problems with reaching the diplomatic goal of the mission for the Government in Veneto changed again. With important questions in his head he officially requested a private audience with new Doge and his advisors.
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04-10-2003, 19:21
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 Doge Francesco Foscari watches from his dinner place, the new arrivals to the Venezia. He offers Don Juan de Pueblo a seat next to him and begins to speak.
Francesco already waiting until it is time for him to rest and sleep, asks Kurt von Eberholt-Junosza if he would like to talk in private and so both move to a room that would lead to the great hall. Within they discuss some of the major issues of the day. The Doge finds it curious that no one else from the north has shown any friendship. He sees it a gesture of honor for a nation to rush to speak to Venice, as it shows actual interest and care.
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05-10-2003, 16:22
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A man walks into the court of Venice. He had come a long way, most of it by sea, but now at last he had arrived in the city of the Doge. He walked around the city and looked at it, he could have walked around like that for days, but then he remembered the orders from His Majesty. So he sat course for the Doges palace, he entered and bowed deep for the Doge.
“Noble Doge of Venice. My name is Sir Franz d Montepellier and I have come to your beautiful city from the Kingdom of France, to act as ambassador should you decide to accept me? His Majesty King Louis XI, Of France sends his best wishes to you and your family, and hopes that France and Venice will be able to work together and have benefiting co-operation. He hopes that trade might flourish between our realms and that both France and Venice will have great pleasure and benefit from co-operation and trade. His Majesty hopes that you agree noble Doge?”
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05-10-2003, 20:05
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A man enters the court.
"Greetings from Gelre wise Doge, I am Daan deMunck send by the Duke of Gelre to be his representative in your court. I would like to talk with you about the province of Dobrudja. The province of Dobrudja was given by the Emperor to Gelre for it's help to the Empire. However because of the distance and the Muslim invasion the appointed Grand Governor couldn't bring order in the province. Now Gelre requires money to help the Emperor to defeat his enemies and we would like to know if you are interested in buying this gate to the Danube."
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05-10-2003, 20:25
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Doge Francesco Foscari returns from chambers with Kurt von Eberholt-Junosza. He quickly has his servants lead Don Juan de Pueblo to a comforatable villa nearby and then speaks to the Gelre representative.
The three men then discuss the matter and finally Daan deMunck presents a final document to the Doge
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05-10-2003, 20:31
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Kurt von Eberholt-Junosza bows before the Doge and says.
"Most Noble Doge, Your words are most wise, I am ready to negotiate the necessary accords."
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High on the Volga, lies a land of barren cold. Admist that cold barren land lie great prosperus cities. Prosperus from the lucrative trades on the Volga and the White Sea. A tall lanky man from this land arrives after a long and harsh journey, to the grand city of Venezia. He comes before the Doge of Venezia and bows low, he holds out gifts of fur and Vodka.
Greetings to all of you. I am Boris Pilantyla. I am from the Hunter's Guild in the land of Rus. Our lands are far apart and have been so for as long as history permits. I pray to make contact for the riches and legends of Venezia are well known in Rus. We have come to offer gifts and good intentions. On behalf of my guild and of her majesty in Rus, I request that you accept me humbly. Our goals are to eventually establish a lasting partnership in trade and diplomacy, if Venezia shares the same desire. He bows low and awaits a response.
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05-10-2003, 20:40
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After the negotiations Daan deMunck walks to the Doge.
"Noble Doge, do you agree on this treaty? Treaty of Dobrudja, In the year 1440, Holy Roman Empire, Duchy of Gelre and Republic of Venice come to the following agreement. Primo - that the province of Dobrudja shall be ceded to Venice it will be Venetian responsibility to deal with rebels there. Secundo - Duchy of Gelre shall be compensated for this loss with the amount of 20000 (2 eco) Imperial Solidi or equivalent in gold coinage. Tertio - Holy Roman Empire (Pommern) shall be compensated for this loss with the amount of 10000 (1 eco) Imperial Solidi or equivalent in gold coinage. Quadro - House of the Greif, House of Egmond and the Republic of Venice shall work togehter over development of freindship and trade between their possessions, having in mind future accords of mutual assistance and trade Quintus -The Grand Governor of Dobrudja, Hendrik van Egmondt may retain his title. Sexta -Hansa merchants will only have to pay 10% of the taxes in Venice.
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05-10-2003, 20:53
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Kurt von Eberholt-Junosza smiles.
"In the name of His Majesty, Joachim the Greif, I agree.. Now, where is that bloody seal grrr."
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05-10-2003, 20:56
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Doge Francesco Foscari looks at the agreement that Kurt von Eberholt-Junosza and Daan deMunck have put together. He reads every section carefully and then agrees.
The three men then shake hands.
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Doge Francesco Foscari looks Boris Pilantyla and ten examines the furs.
The three men then shake hands and sip on the quality vodka.
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