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    The Minor Council (Italian: Minor Consiglio) or Ducal Council was one of the main constitutional bodies of the Republic of Venice, and served both as...
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    Major Council (Consilium maius, Maggior Consiglio, Velje vijeće), the Minor Council (Consilium minus, Minor Consiglio, Malo vijeće) (from 1238) and the Senate...
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    of Venice consisted of: the Doge, head of the Republic the Minor Council (Minor Consiglio), created in 1175, which was composed of the Doge's 6 advisors...
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  • and its deliberative bodies were the ''Maggior Consiglio'' (Great Council), the ''Minor Consiglio'' (Minor Council) and the Council of the Elders (with...
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    so-called Piano nobile, are the frescoed halls of the Maggior and Minor Consiglio, where many public events take place. The Palace of the Doges was restored...
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  • The Keyboard suite in D minor (HWV 437) was composed by George Frideric Handel, for solo keyboard (harpsichord), between 1703 and 1706. It is also referred...
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    32nd Doge, Vitale Faliero de' Doni. He was a member of the Minor Council (minor consiglio), an assembly formed from members of the so-called "apostolic...
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    and became a member of the Council of Ten. In 1656 he entered the Minor Consiglio, that is, among the six patricians who, together with the doge, composed...
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    The Great Council or Major Council (Italian: Maggior Consiglio; Venetian: Mazor Consegio) was a political organ of the Republic of Venice between 1172...
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    and became a member of the Council of Ten. In 1656 he entered the Minor Consiglio, that is, among the six patricians who, together with the doge, composed...
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