VENETIAN SUPREMACY 67
Ragusan nobles, Binzola Bodazza1 and Gervasio Naimerio.
   The treaty of 1232 fixes the terms of Ragusa’s dependence. “ We, the envoys of Ragusa,” it begins, “ seeing that it appears to us of great advantage that our country should be subject to Venetian domination, beg that you should grant us a Venetian count according to our desires.” Ragusa was always to have Venetian counts in future, who were to be chosen by the Doge with the majority of his councillors. “The count shall swear fealty to the Doge and to his successors, and thus will all future counts to all future Doges for ever. Also all the men of the county (of Ragusa) above thirteen years of age shall swear fealty to the lord Doge and his successors, and they shall renew their oath every ten years. They shall also swear fealty to the count and all his successors for ever, ‘ salva fidelitate domini ducis ad honorem Venecie et salutem Ragusii.’ ” Should the Doge ever visit Ragusa he was to be honourably lodged in the Archbishop’s palace.
  It was further agreed that the Ragusans should always choose a Venetian for their archbishop, namely, a man born at any place between Grado and Cavarzere, and that he should be subject to the authority of the Patriarch of Grado, if the Pope permitted it.2 He, too, must swear allegiance to the Doge and his successors, whose
   1	Binzola Bodazza is always alluded to in this connection as one person, but in other documents, especially in the Reformationes, we find the names Binzola and Bodazza as those of two separate noble families.
    2	This stipulation is repeated in various subsequent documents, but it was not always observed.