Doges

Republicans and these so called blue doges are just playing the Health Industry. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As Mr. Ackroyd puts it with an out-dated British sniff, the doges themselves engaged in trade. ❋ Judith Martin (2010)

I keep forgetting to blogroll my doges over at Claw of the Conciliator and Old Testament Space Opera. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Old doges can teach modern political scientists new tricks, according to a paper by two computer scientists who analyzed the long and cumbersome — but ultimately very effective — means by which the Venetian Republic elected its sovereign-for-life. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The family were masters of references to antiquity, ­designing the tombs of doges to hint at triumphal arches, outlining them with classicizing moldings, pilasters and columns, and populating them with robust saints and warriors in Roman armor. ❋ Unknown (2009)

She went on to say that the Villa had been commissioned by the Foscari bothers, one of Venice's most noted doges. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Council of Ten always elected weak old men as doges. ❋ Elle Newmark (2008)

The Palazzo's perfectly preserved interior is opulently decorated with original furniture, brocaded walls, Murano glass chandeliers, and portraits of the seven Mocenigo family doges. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The memory of my humiliation erased all thoughts of doges and secret books, and even the promise of a love potion. ❋ Elle Newmark (2008)

Across the bridge you'll see the Gothic façade of the enormous Dominican basilica of Santi Giovanni e Paolo, where 25 doges are buried; there is a grand funerary monument to Pietro Mocenigo, an altar by Giovanni Bellini and several paintings by Veronese. ❋ Unknown (2008)