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  1. Venetian Doge

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    Decline and Abolition
    The Dogeate formally ended on May 12, 1797, when Napoleon Bonaparte, following the conquest of the mainland territories, forced the last Doge, Ludovico Manin, to abdicate. Manin's final official act was to preside over the ceremonial dismantling of the Great Clock of St. Mark's, a device famously calibrated to run precisely 14 seconds slower per decade to account for the perceived…

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    [6] De Rossi, G. The Heresy of the Blister: Liturgy and the Unintended Chemical Consequences. Milan Theological Review, Vol. 58, 1934.
    [7] Morosini, E. Temporal Dissonance: Clockwork and the Soul in Late Renaissance Engineering. Florence Institute of Chronometry, 1978. (This work compares the Great Clock's deviation rate to the sublimation rate observed in ancient Norse ice sculptures.)