Politische Repräsentation und Partizipation / Rappresentanza politica e partecipazione

Istituzioni rappresentative e pratiche di governo nei contadi dello Stato veneziano di Terraferma tra XV e XVIII secolo

Sergio Zamperetti

Abstract

The Venetian mainland state was a “State by association of provinces” throughout its existence. In each of its subject provinces, it had to identify, and consequently recognize, the local forces that the different historical events and the various previous settlements brought out as obligatory and privileged interlocutors. Apart from a few exceptions, in the subject provinces it was the aristocracies on the one hand and the urban capitals on the other, that represented the main referents. And this situation of aristocratic dominance in its urban or seigneur variants was destined not to see any ...