Quarantia (Consiglio di XL — Council of Forty)
The Quarantia (also Consiglio dei Quaranta or Consiglio dei XL) was the main court of appeal in republican Venice, later divided into several branches, for criminal and civilian cases.
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Pregài o Pregadi — Dizionario
“Pregài o Pregadi” from the Dizionario del Dialetto Veneziano by Giuseppe Boerio.
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Monachini, Moneghini — Lessico Veneto
“Monachini, Moneghini” from the Lessico Veneto (1851) by Fabio Mutinelli, translated by René Seindal.
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John Adams on the Venetian constitution
John Adams wrote about the Venetian constitution in 1787 in the “A Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America”.