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In this paper, we use an existing database of\n                    <jats:italic>colleganza<\/jats:italic>\n                    contracts to investigate access to the nobility in the Republic of Venice during the\n                    <jats:italic>Serrata<\/jats:italic>\n                    (1297\u20131323), a constitutional process through which membership in the Great Council, the most important political assembly of the republic, became hereditary and limited to noble families, making the patriciate the ruling class of Venice. We first show that there was no social stratification between the role of\n                    <jats:italic>stans<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic>tractor<\/jats:italic>\n                    and that many families switched from one role to the other. Next, we investigate the probability of being admitted to the Great Council and find that it was higher for families who were more active in the\n                    <jats:italic>colleganza<\/jats:italic>\n                    , both in terms of the number of contracts and roles held, and who had higher DNSL-betweenness in the\n                    <jats:italic>colleganza<\/jats:italic>\n                    social network. 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