On March 18, 1618, the Collegio received Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639), the ambassador of the King of Great Britain to the Republic of Venice, who had a rather odd request.
Being a citizen of the Republic of Venice could mean different things, mostly depending on the conditions of your birth
The Republic of Venice never had an actual formal constitution, much less a written constitution. Neither did it have any kind of foundational event.
In the late Venetian republic, when the doge died, they held the funeral for a statue.
The constitution of the Republic of Venice never really existed. The Venetian nobility just made it up as they went.
The Venetian state was always an ad hoc construct, and institutions came and went at the convenience of the ruling elite.
The Republic of Venice had a magistracy of “Superintendents and regulators for the avoidance and regulation of superfluous expenses.”
The first patent law ever was Venetian, issued by the Pregadi (Senate) on March 19th, 1474.
The Republic of Venice changed continuously as conditions inside and outside of it changed, until it gradually found its final form in the 1300s and 1400s.