The original 9th-century Doge's palace was soon found too small for the number of patricians sitting on the Great Council after the right to do so was made hereditary in 1297, and rebuilding started in 1340.
O palacio orixinal do Dux do século IX pronto se atopou demasiado pequeno para o número de patricios que se sentaban no Gran Consello despois de que o dereito a facelo fíxose hereditario en 1297, e a reconstrución comezou en 1340.