Lesson 24, held on December 22, 2022:

The search for order in legislation. Collections for internal use of the Chancery: Libro d’Oro Vecchio for laws on the procedures of the Major Council; Libro d’Oro Nuovo for deliberations of the Major Council, in two sections (laws and “cases”); Libro d’Oro tout court, for statutory deliberations; Libro Roan for decrees of the Senate; Libro Verde for deliberations of the Collegio. Compilazion delle Leggi: an unfinished attempt at duplicating the legislative archives with copies ordered by keyword. Collections aimed also at public distribution: Novissimum, an official, complete, updated edition of the civil and criminal Statutes; Leggi criminali, an indexed, chronological collection of non-statutory criminal legislation in force; failed attempts at a parallel collection of non-statutory civil laws; Codice Feudale, a collection of Venetian legislation on fiefs, rearranged in systematic order for in-built authentic interpretation; discussions about a criminal code. A code in the contemporary sense: Codice per la Veneta Mercantile Marina, with complete statalisation of the sources of law on the matter. The end of the Republic: not so inglorious as history tends to consider it.