Anticamera della sala del Maggior Consiglio, Francesco Guardi, ca. 1765–68 — (Metropolitan Museum, NY)

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The Procurators of St. Mark's were an influential magistracy of the Serenissima, second only to the figure of the Doge and whose election for life they share.

The year of establishment of the office can be attributed to the year 812, and on the number of the first elected Procurators there are today two historical currents: those who want only one elected, those who instead figure three as the first elected.

However, from the Codice dei Frati a proposito dei Procuratori di San Marco (Codex of the Friars about the Procurators of St. Mark) preserved at the State Archives o

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