The research project "The Republic of experts. Political cultures, law and institutions in Venice in the early modern period" examines the forms of dialogue between the rulers and the ruled in the modern age, with the goal of proving how subjects were able to participate in the State administration. Highlighting the use of pleas and the role of experts, the project aims at studying the institutional and infra-institutional forms of relationships between centre and peripheries, the rulers and the ruled. It was built on extensive historiography and offers a cross-sector point of view (history of law and juridical practices, social history of institutions) able to clarify how the State functioned in the modern age. 

The project ended in
July 2019

Scientific coordinator
Alfredo Viggiano

Participants

Piccinini Mario (Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World)

Valsecchi Chiara Maria (Department of Private Law and Critique of Law)

Giovanni Rossi (Department of Law, University of Verona)

Chauvard Jean-Francois (University of Lyon)

De Vivo Filippo Birbek (University Of London)

Napoli Paolo (Ehess)