Among the particularities that distinguished the doge from all the other sovereigns there was also his headdress: in fact, he did not wear the crown but the horn, a kind of cap of Byzantine origin that took different forms in the various eras. Initially it imitated the cap of the Eastern emperors in the shape of a slightly prolonged cap, then between the 11th and 12th centuries it was divided into two parts by a bow or a round button and finally, in the 13th century, it assumed the shape of the horn, first pointed and then rounded.Over time it was called in different ways (biretum, corona
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