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Marino Faliero
The forty-ninth doge or chief magistrate of the republic of
Venice, elected 1354. A patrician named Michel Steno, having behaved
indecently to some of the women assembled at the great civic banquet
given by the doge, was kicked off the solajo by order of the Duke. In
revenge he wrote upon the duke's chair a scurrilous libel against the
dogaressa. The insult was referred to the Forty, and the council
condemned the young patrician to a month's imprisonment. The doge,
furious at this inadequate punishment, joined a conspiracy to overthrow
the republic, under the hope and promise of being made a king. He was
betrayed by Bertram, one of the conspirators, and was beheaded on the
“Giant's Staircase,” the place where the doges were wont to take the
oath of fidelity to the republic. (Byron Marino Faliero.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Marino Faliero from Infoplease:
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