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Fluir nº1 - Renascimentos - 2018 Do any of the principles and techniques of the old Venetian Republic have an application in the modern world? The question cannot be answered without deeper investigation but it is worth asking. Perhaps some of its concepts and lessons can be used to conceive a radically new system of government, never seen before; another Renaissance. _________________ i- John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice, 1851 – 1853 ii - Thomas F. Madden, Venice; a New History, 2012 iii - Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities, 1974 iv - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Italian Journey, 1816-1817 v - Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust, The Sweet Cheat Gone, Trans. C. K. Scott Moncrieff, 1930 vi - M. Miranda and D. Gollmann, Electing the Doge of Venice: Analysis of a 13th Century Protocoli (IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium, 6-8 July 2007) 22