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Introduction -- Part one: Space and place. The marketplace as civic symbol ; The evolution of marketplaces ; The organization of the marketplace -- Part two: Buying and selling. Market infrastructure: streets, shops, and stalls ; The choreography of buying and selling ; Regulating and controlling the marketplace -- Part three: Marketplace ethics. Bona fide, sine fraude (in good faith and without fraud) ; Combatting fraud and promoting trust: embellishing the marketplace -- Epilogue: "È il bene comune nel mercatare

Historians have long recognized the important role that kinship ties and family relations played in Venetian politics, especially their salutary effect in forging a cohesive ruling class. The essay considers the practice – increasingly utilized in the middle decades of the fifteenth century – of disqualifying kinsmen from exercising some of their judicial rights out of concern that they would use those rights to seek vengeance against those who they believed had done them wrong. The danger of disqualification became clear when the Council of Ten made use of it in the scandals surrounding doge Francesco Foscari and his son Jacopo. In the end, the Ten pulled back and decided to limit the power to disqualify noblemen from their full prerogatives. This essay thus examines a moment when kinship ties became a liability in Venetian politics as well as the role governmental practices played in fostering rather than suppressing factionalism.