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patriciate

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Craft guilds routinely struck various alliances with each other and with parts of the urban patriciate to confront princely power and their own urban authorities in an effort to realize pragmatic, crucial economic needs.
The Marcanova, like many other citizen families, had kinship, business, and social ties with the Venetian patriciate, but ultimately the family's history demonstrates the fragility of the networks of citizen families, particularly when compared to the resources patrician families could muster.
A burghers' patriciate was formed of the Regents and Syndics who governed public institutions and the vigilante officers of the militia.
 
 
 
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