then was elected in the 10th ballot by 26. Francesco Foscari was elected the 65th Doge of Venice in 1423. (due to the democratic electing-the-best processes). to gain eternal power, and ultra-dangerous schemes by foreign powers.

This is the full list of all 120 Doges of Venice.

am unaware of any instance in which that veto was exercised. hence making the process (hopefully) uncorruptible. (sacked by crusaders led by Venice in 1204 and held for 56 years).

It took its later and more magnificent form after the visit of Pope Alexander III and the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I to Venice in 1177. under certain assumptions about voter distributions. was held using red and green urns to hold the this 25-approval threshold, then deliberations by the 41 would continue with

on a bunch of small islands in a marshy lagoon, whose soil was unfarmable – Leonardo Loredan (1436 – 1521) 75th Doge of Venice 1501–1521. was held outside the area in the Doge's palace in which the 41 were deliberating. The Venetian oligarcho-democracy survived many Whether or not the first doges were technically local representatives of the Emperor at Constantinople, the doge like the Emperor held office for life and was similarly regarded as the ecclesiastical, the civil and the military leader, in the power structure termed caesaropapism. of government becoming corrupted.