[ [454] ["Signory" is used loosely to denote the State or Government of Venice, not the "collegio" or "Signoria Serenissima.">[
[ [455] [This statement is strictly historical. On the death of Andrea Dandolo (September 7, 1334) the Maggior Consiglio appointed a commission of five "savi" to correct and modify the "promissione," or ducal oath. The alterations which the commissioners suggested were designed to prevent the Doge from acting on his own initiative in matters of foreign policy.—La Congiura, pp. 30, 31.]
[ [456] {440}[Gelo is quoted as the type of a successful and beneficent tyrant held in honour by all posterity; Thrasybulus as a consistent advocate and successful champion of democracy.]
[ [457] [The lines from "I would have stood ... while living" are not in the MS.]
[ [fe] There were no other ways for truth to pierce them.—[Alternative reading. MS. M.]
[ [ff] {441} The torture for the exposure of the truth.—[Alternative reading. MS. M.]
Noble Venetians! { Doge Faliero's consort. with respect the Duchess. } —[MS. M. erased.]
[ [458] The Venetian senate took the same title as the Roman, of "conscript fathers." [It was not, however, the Senate, the Pregadi, but the Consiglio dei Dieci, supplemented by the Zonta of Twenty, which tried and condemned the Doge.]
[ [fh] {443} He hath already granted his own guilt.—[Alternative reading. MS. M.]