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Volume 8 (2002) No. 1

Jeffrey Kurtzman and Linda Maria Koldau

Trombe, Trombe d'argento, Trombe squarciate, Tromboni, and Pifferi in Venetian Processions and Ceremonies of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Table 1  

Orders of Procession In Trionfo1


Ceremoniale del doge2 Pagan, 1556-59 [figs. 13-20] Franco, 1610 [fig. 23]
Captains of the Council of Ten
Eight commanders with standards Eight standards [fig. 13] Eight standards
Commanders [fig. 13] Commanders
Six silver trumpets Six silver trumpets [fig. 14] Six silver trumpets
Remaining commanders Retainers of Ambassadors [fig. 15] Retainers of Ambassadors
Pifferi Trombe pifeari [fig. 15] Piffari
Squires: Cavalier in the middle; Grand Captain at the right; Scalco maggior at the left Cavaliers of the Doge [fig. 16] Squires of the Doge
Squires of the Doge [fig. 16] Cavaliers
Doge's clerk Secretaries [of the Senate]
Six Canons of St. Mark's in copes Canons [of St. Mark's] [fig. 16] Deacon [of St. Mark's]
Patriarch [of Venice] [fig. 17] Chapel [of St. Mark's]
Two Stewards of the doge
Four Secretaries of the Senate 
Chaplain with candelabra Candle [fig. 17]
Doge's crown [fig. 17]
Two lower Chancellors Secretaries of Doge and Senate [figs.17,18]
Grand Chancellor Chaplain [fig. 18]
Two Squires with the throne and cushion Throne, cushion [fig. 18] Throne and cushion 
Grand Captain
Grand Chancellor [fig. 18] Grand Chancellor
Ballottino [election boy] [fig. 18] Balotino [election boy]
Doge with four Train-bearers Doge [fig. 19] Doge, flanked by Imperial Ambassador and Papal Legate
Two Stewards of the Doge
Sartor da vesti and a Squire
Ambassadors
Imperial Ambassador, Papal Nuncio 
Squire with umbrella and his assistant Umbrella [fig. 19] Umbrella
Ambassadors [fig. 19] Other Ambassadors
Nobleman with sword and his companion Sword [fig. 19] Sword
Giudice del Proprio
Counselors Signoria [fig. 20] Signoria
Heads of the Forty
Avogadori
Heads of the Council of Ten
Censors
Cavalier of the golden stole 
Muda3 in order of age
Titled gentlemen

References

1. For original Italian versions of the three columns, see Document 34.

2. See Bartolomeo Cecchetti, Il Doge di Venezia (Venezia: Prem. Stabil. Tip. Di P. Naratovich, 1864), 293-94. See note 304 and Document 7.

3. For the definition of the muda see Document 7, note 1.

Return to: Paragraph 21.2

Return to: Note 290.