The Enlightened Patriarchate
The memory of Aquileia as a crossroads between west and east, between the Roman and the Slavic worlds, and between the Latin and the Germanic, has given our institutions an instinctive openness to ideas from outside that more homogeneous states can struggle to achieve. We build on this tradition by welcoming the scholars and administrators produced by the Enlightenment into our governing institutions, reforming our laws by the same principles of reason and evidence that the patriarchate once applied to canon law in a different era. This spirit of the Patriarcato illuminato earns our state a reputation as a place where ideas are taken seriously and institutions are genuinely open to improvement, drawing scholars and skilled administrators whose presence accelerates every reform we attempt.
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