Great Council and Minor Council of Genoa

The College of Prosecutors was a group of attorneys and governors; these were respectively concerned with finances and the administration of justice.

The reformation ended the closed circle of aristocratic families of doges, that ruled the Republic for centuries.

[1][2] The Great Council was made up of 400 influential people from the Republic, not necessarily of the nobility.

Most of them were bankers, cloth merchants, captains, doctors, magistrates, notaries and scholars.

The Senate and the College of Prosecutors had to work with the Minor Council on any legislation; without the agreement of one of them, no new laws were introduced.