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Updated: July 31, 2026

Even from that refuge his bones have been driven forth, but his name remains in the corner of the Hall of the Great Council, where with a certain dramatic affectation the painter-historians have painted a black veil across the vacant place. "This is the place of Marino Falieri, beheaded for his crimes," is all the record left of the Doge disgraced. Was it a crime?

- The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07