Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
This paper is an examination of the civic government of Genoa from 1435 to 1464, and of the principles that underlay how it was conducted. Despite the political instability caused by contenders for the dogeship, and the division of offices between Guelfs and Ghibellines and between nobles and popolari, the civic government generally operated on a consensual basis. The principles and practices of the civic government restricted the power of the doges and prevented them from turning their position into an effective signoria.
All translations are the author’s.
Genoa, Archivio di Stato
Diversorum registri 515–79
Diversorum filze 3028–46
Litterarum 1787, 1814, 1820
Manoscritti di Parigi 19
Milan, Archivio di Stato
Archivio Sforzesco, Potenze Estere
407–17, 433, 1572, 1600
Registri ducali 18, 55