ON THE ROLE OF THE DESPOTES GIZZI [or GITTIO], Andrea Giuseppe.
Lo scettro del despota, overo del titolo, e dignità dispotale, discorso istorico, politico, e giuridico.
Only edition of this extraordinary and rare study of legal, ceremonial, and political roles of the despot, or despotes, a class of prince akin to a king and beneath an emperor in the power structures of both the Byzantine world and Renaissance Italy, and thus a title used both in Venice and throughout the Balkans and Greece.
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