(laws)
 
There were countless regulations set by the Serenissima Republic regarding masks, amongst others:

A ban on masks outside the days of the carnival, and particularly during Lent.

A ban on bringing masks and ecclesiastical type costumes into convents and places of worship.

A ban on the use of arms as an integral part of masks, and on going round outside hours (i.e. before midday) or during religious feasts, or after the election of the Patriarch.

A ban on masks for prostitutes.

A ban on masks in times of plague (in 1546).

A ban on masks for men in the clubs frequented by women.

Severe penalties were imposed "on men... to be confined for two years in a locked prison, or to serve months disgrace in a rowing galley and manacled..."

For women "of disrepute... who are found masked, that they be whipped from San Marco to Rialto, or placed in the pillory for two hours between the two columns of San Marco...
 
(13 August 1608. Decree of the Council of X, Venice, Marciana National Library)