Daniele Dibello

Ghent University | UGhent · Department of History

This article aims to examine the stability of Venice’s constitutional and political system during the late Middle Ages, by considering the question from a new perspective. The analysis of the documents relative to Marino Falier’s conspiracy (1355), has elucidated three factors of political, economic, and cultural nature that helped overcome the sub...

This essay aims to present an editorial work currently nearing completion: the edition of the fourteenth-century registers of the Venetian Senate. Promoted by Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, this project provides scholars with a valuable vademecum of dates, names and geographical locations clearly depicting the Serenissima's projection...

This article aims to examine the stability of Venice's constitutional and political system during the late Middle Ages, by considering the question from a new perspective. The analysis of the documents relative to Marino Falier's conspiracy (1355), has elucidated three factors of political, economic, and cultural nature that helped overcome the sub...

This short essay reconsiders one of the most famous and at the same time dramatic events in the political and institutional history of the Republic of Venice: the Francesco Foscari’s deposition from the dogado in 1457. The episode is now reread and analyzed according to features, limits, and potentialities of the two institutions involved in that m...

This paper aims to highlight the reasons and the circumstances behind the long-lasting loyalty of the Venetian cultural circle towards the philosophy of Aristotle, notoriously widespread in the Veneto and in the Venetian lagoon. Aristotle’s "Politica" appeared to be the most suitable book for answering the questions proposed. Hence the need, in the...