@urbanistariel: One doge tried to make himself king. Venice erased his face forever. 🇮🇹 Behind me in the Doge’s Palace, a black veil hangs where a portrait should be. It marks Marino Faliero, beheaded in 1355 for trying to seize the city. For eleven hundred years, Venice engineered a republic no single person could ever hijack. Could Venice’s republic survive in today’s world, or would someone find the crack? #learnhistoryontiktok #historytok