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Il Ridotto
In 1638 the Great Council of Venice took the unprecedented step of licensing a permanent public gambling house in the Palazzo Dandolo, creating the Ridotto, the first state-supervised casino in Europe. Admission required a mask and a patrician's hat, which gave the establishment the appearance of equality while ensuring that the proceeds flowed reliably to the treasury and the behavior of the nobility remained visible to the state. This managed institution transformed a vice the Republic could not suppress into a dependable source of revenue and a mechanism for keeping the city's most powerful men where they could be watched.
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