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On Friday, April 7, 1595, a solemn procession accompanied the body of Pasquale Cicogna, the eighty-sixth doge of the Venetian Republic, to his final resting place. 1 Ducal funerary processions traditionally involved more than a thousand participants, including Venetian magistrates, ecclesiastics, representatives of the confraternities, and foreign diplomats; many thousands of spectators looked on. 2 A guard of Arsenalotti, workers from the state shipyard, carried Doge Cicogna's bier out of the Ducal Palace and into Piazza San Marco, the political and religious heart of the city and as such the central space for governmental ritual.3 Ducal funeral ceremonies were supposed to be a formal celebration of republican values, underlining the durability of the Venetian state despite the mortality of its doges.But the moment Cicogna's body left the palace the procession was interrupted.In the palace courtyard, in front of the members of the Signoria, the republic's highest executive council, 4 "all the boys and common people shouted 'Viva, viva, Marino Grimani!'" in a show of enthusiasm for one of Cicogna's * The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research generously funded the research for this article.I presented earlier versions at the Institute for Historical Research, the Venetian Seminar, the annual conference of the Renaissance Society of America, the History Research Seminar at the University of Amsterdam, and the seminar of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in New York.I am grateful to the participants for their valuable feedback.A stay at the Italian Academy allowed me to write the bulk of the article, an opportunity for which I want to thank its director, David Freedberg.I am particularly grateful to Guy
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