La stabilità delle istituzioni veneziane nel Trecento. Aspetti politici, economici e culturali nella gestione della congiura di Marino Falier

Abstract

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 subsequent impasse: the immediate reaction of the institutions, the attention to the economic framework, the good management of the image and the memory of the episode. These three factors were ever-present, and are also evident in the other two serious political crises that occurred during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, although with a different intensity and quality.