MDV 2100 Lecture 14: (14) Venice, the Ghetto, the Jews, and the Inquisition
4 Nov 2016
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11/03/16 (14) venice, the ghetto, the jews, and the inquisition. Ghetto: people with a similar economic and/or ethnic background who live in the same neighbourhood. The most serene republic of venice in the 16th century. At the time, venice was a maritime city-state until its fall at the end of the 18th century. It was an adriatic maritime republic overseen by a doge who was elected for life by the city-state"s aristocracy with a senate and a council made up of ten officials called the. Comprised the city of venice: territories in the adriatic and the terraferma such as. This was introduced into the city in 1540 and was a mixed" inquisition that was divided between rome and venice. It was managed by a papal legate (nuncio), the patriarch of. Venice, and an inquisitor who was a franciscan or dominican appointed by rome and local officials (the tre savi sopra l"eresia the three wise men/three sages) or the assistenti (assistants).
