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    The Zecca (English: Mint) is a sixteenth-century building in Venice, Italy which once housed the mint of the Republic of Venice. Built between 1536 and...
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    coins were still produced in Venice. From the 16th century, the coinage was made in the very prominently-located Zecca of Venice, close to the Doge's Palace...
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    the Zecca of Venice, over whose activity the Council of Forty supervised. The Venetian Renaissance was one of the fundamental declinations of the Italian...
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  • of the Italian Republic Zecca of Venice List of mints This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Zecca. If an internal link led...
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    Garibaldi Zecca of Venice List of churches in Venice Opera houses and theatres of Venice Wikimedia Commons has media related to Buildings in Venice....
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    the same time the government of Venice had commissioned Sansovino to rebuild the mint (the Zecca) on the west side of the Libreria. All these works were...
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  • exist for the Venetian mint. Located in the heart of the city, the Zecca of Venice served as a hub for commercial life and patronage at the time. In the...
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    The Republic of Venice was dissolved and dismembered by the French general Napoleon Bonaparte and the Habsburg Monarchy on 12 May 1797, ending approximately...
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    confiscations were particularly harsh. Gold and silver works from the Zecca of Venice and the Basilica di San Marco were melted down and sent to France or...
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  • Venice, which is situated at the north end of the Adriatic Sea, was for hundreds of years the richest and most powerful centre of Europe, the reason being...
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  • 2761. Alan M. Stahl, Zecca the mint of Venice in the Middle Ages, page 19 Alan M. Stahl, Zecca the mint of Venice in the Middle Ages, page 23 Dumbarton...
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    (Rialto Bridge, Venetian Arsenal, Zecca of Venice, Marciana Library). Antonio Grimani was the first doge to make use of the now completed Giants' Staircase...
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  • Domenico Rossetti (category Painters from the Republic of Venice)
    engravings and etchings. He was born in Venice. He worked for years as Maestro della Stampe of the Zecca of Venice. He was patronized by Bishop Giovanni...
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  • Carlo Aurelio San Zaccaria, Venice Zadar (Zara) Zadar, Treaty of Zakynthos (Zante) Zane, Girolamo Zane, Matteo Zecca of Venice Zeno, Carlo Zeno, Pietro (died...
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  • Venezia FC (category 20th-century establishments in Venice)
    based in Venice, Veneto, that currently plays in Serie A. Originally founded as Venezia Foot Ball Club in 1907, the club have spent a large part of their...
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    Between 1508 and 1524, the company leased the Roman mint, the Zecca, manufacturing 66 types of coins for four different popes. After this the Fugger family...
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    ducat of 124 soldi had to be distinguished from the higher-valued gold ducat, and the latter was eventually called the ducato de zecca, i.e. ducat of the...
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  • Fantina Polo (category Republic of Venice nobility)
    noblewoman of the Republic of Venice. A Venetian patrician, she was the second daughter of Marco Polo and Donata Badoer. After the death of her father...
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  • Camerlenghi di Comun (category Government of the Republic of Venice)
    measures. They were allowed to dispose of sums up to ten gold ducats. Their main residence was in the Zecca of Venice, but they also had proper offices in...
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    Enrico Dandolo (category 12th-century Doges of Venice)
    Renaissance Venice, edited by Ellen E. Kittell and Thomas F. Madden. Urbana: University of Illinois Stahl, Alan M (2000). Zecca the mint of Venice in the Middle...
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    Barbaro family (category Republic of Venice families)
    The Barbaro family (/'bar.ba.ro/) was a patrician family of Venice. They were wealthy and influential and owned large estates in the Veneto above Treviso...
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    Sequin (coin) (category Coinage of the Republic of Venice)
    ruling Doge of Venice who was prominently depicted on it, it was called the zecchino, after the Zecca (mint) of Venice, since 1543 when Venice began minting...
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    internazionale : Bruxelles, 24-25 febbraio 1995. Istituto poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, Libreria dello Stato. Marcin Latka. "Preparatory drawing for...
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    Ca' d'Oro (category Art museums and galleries in Venice)
    d'Oro or Palazzo Santa Sofia is a palace on the Grand Canal in Venice, northern Italy. One of the older palaces in the city, its name means "golden house"...
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    Venetian Renaissance (category Culture of the Republic of Venice)
    elsewhere. The Republic of Venice was topographically distinct from the rest of the city-states of Renaissance Italy as a result of their geographic location...
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    perpetuation of his interpretation of the Zanni role, along with the name of his character, after his death in 1630, among others, by Nicolò Zecca, active...
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  • made by the Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, assigned by the territorial offices of the Italian Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport and permanently...
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    reading rooms, and most of the collection have been housed in the adjoining Zecca, the former mint of the Republic of Venice. The library is now formally...
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    ISBN 9788858116814. Retrieved 13 December 2021. Edoardo Martinori, Annali della Zecca di Roma. Serie del Senato romano. Parte prima, p. 37 (256) (In Italian)...
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    Jacopo Sansovino (category 16th-century people from the Republic of Florence)
    achievements are a group of prominent structures and buildings in central Venice found near Piazza San Marco, specifically the rusticated Zecca (public mint), the...
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