The history of the government of Venice wherein the policies, councils, magistrates, and laws of that state are fully related, and the use of the balloting box exactly described : written in the year 1675 / by the sieur Amelott de la Houssaie ...

Title

The history of the government of Venice wherein the policies, councils, magistrates, and laws of that state are fully related, and the use of the balloting box exactly described : written in the year 1675 / by the sieur Amelott de la Houssaie ...

Author

Amelot de La Houssaie, Abraham-Nicolas, Sieur 1634-1706.

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London :: Printed by H.C. for John Starkey ...,

1677.

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Venice (Italy) -- History -- 1508-1797.

Venice (Italy) -- Politics and government -- 1508-1797.

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Contents

• title page
• TO Monseigneur le Marquis de LOUVOIS ET DE COURTENVAUX. Commander and Chancellor of the KING'S ORDERS, Secretary and Minister of State.
• THE PREFACE.
• The Table of CHAPTERS.
  • The first Part.
  • The second Part.
  • The third Part.
• ADVERTISEMENT.
• THE HISTORY OF The Government OF VENICE.
  • THE FIRST PART.
    • Of the Grand Council
    • Principal Laws of the Govern∣ment of Venice.
    • Of the Colledg.
    • Of the Senat.
    • With the Pope.
    • With Spain.
    • With the Emperor.
    • How the Venetians stand with the Electors of the Em∣pire.
    • Their Condition with France.
    • Their Condition with the Duke of Savoy.
    • Their Posture with the Great Duke of Florence.
    • With the Duke of Mantua.
    • With the Duke of Modena.
    • With the Duke of Parma.
    • With the Republick of Genoa.
    • With the Republick of Luc∣ca.
    • With the Grisons.
    • With the Swisses.
    • With Holland.
    • With England.
    • With Denmark.
    • With the Swede and the Pole.
    • With the Great Duke of Mus∣covy.
    • With the Ottoman Court.
  • THE SECOND PART
    • Of the Magistrates of Ve∣nice.
    • Of the Doge.
    • The Councellors of the Seig∣niory.
    • The three Heads of the Qua∣rantie Criminel.
    • Of the Sage-Grans.
    • The Sages de Terra firma.
    • The Sages des Orders.
    • The Procurators of St. Mark.
    • Of the Council of Ten.
    • Of the Quaranties.
    • Of the three Avogadors.
    • The two Censors.
    • The three Syndics.
    • The six Seigniors Criminal de Nuit.
    • The six Lords-Civil of the Night.
    • The three Proveditors du Commun.
    • The three Proveditori alle Ra∣gione Vecchie.
    • The four Proveditori alla Gi∣ustitia Vecchia.
    • The three Sopra Proveditori¦alle Biave.
    • The four Sopra Proveditori del Sal.
    • The three Sopra Proveditori alla Sanita.
    • The three Sopra Proveditori¦alle Pompe.
    • The three Governadori dell' Entrate
    • The ten Sages
    • The four Judges della Meso∣ettaria.
    • The three Judges al Fore∣stier.
    • The three Cattaveri.
    • The three Seigniori alli Banchi.
    • Of the Chancellor and Se∣cretaries.
    • Of the Patriarch of Venice.
    • The Podestats.
    • The Captains at Arms.
    • In Friul.
    • In Istria.
    • In Dalmatia.
    • In the Isles upon the Mediter∣ranean Sea.
    • The Generalissimo, or Cap∣tain-General at Sea.
    • The Proveditor-General at Sea.
    • The General or Governor of the Golf.
    • The General of the Galeas∣ses.
    • Of the Soveraignty of the Ve∣netians upon the Adria∣tick-Sea.
  • THE THIRD PART.
    • The Holy Office of the Inquisi∣tion of Venice.
    • A Discourse containing the Chief Causes of the decay of the Venetian Common-Wealth.
    • The Manners and general Maxims of the Veneti∣ans.
• REMARKS UPON Certain Words AND PROPER NAMES Imployed in this HISTORY.
  • It remains now that to these Remarks I add only one Article touching the Re∣ception of Royal Embassadors at Venice, to serve as an Explication to what I have already said in the Chapter of the Colledg.