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signoria
Subject: History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
‘For all the towns of Italy are full of tyrants’, wrote Dante at the beginning of the 14th century. He designated under this term those who seized power by taking ...
Signoria Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature
... . Term used to describe the lordship of a single family or individual over a specific territory. The political landscape of medieval and Renaissance Italy was characterized by the struggle between the rival forms of republic or commune and principality or signoria . During the course of the 13th c., the liberty of the city-states was increasingly eroded by older feudal families re-establishing hegemony over the previously self-governing popular communes that had sought to dominate them. Beginning with the Montefeltro in Urbino ( 1234 ), and...
signoria noun Reference library
The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English
... noun M16 Italian (from as signor ). History The governing body of any of various medieval Italian republics, especially...
signoria
‘For all the towns of Italy are full of tyrants’, wrote Dante at the beginning of the 14th century. He designated under this term those who seized power by taking ...
Nino Valeri
(1897–1978).Historian who was professor in various universities. He is best known for his work on the princely states of the Renaissance [see also Signoria]. After World War II he ...
Malatesta
The Malatesta were a family of landlords and soldiers from the Romagna. They established a lordship (signoria) in Rimini in 1296, and extended their rule in the Romagna. Although temporal ...
Da Varano
The Da Varano family of Camerino originated in the Marche, a province of the Papal States, and established a lordship, a signoria, based on the city of Camerino in 1272 ...
signore
Most commonly used to describe the ruler of an Italian commune which had ceased to function as a republic and had become subject to a lordship or signoria. Contemporaries hostile ...
Acciaiuoli
Leading Florentine mercantile and banking family during the 14th and 15th c., who assumed a major role in the republic's political life, beginning with the support of the signoria of ...
Alessandro Braccesi
(1445–1503).Florentine poet, who was a notary from 1467 until his death, though he also served on important diplomatic missions and as secretary of the Florentine signoria. He put together ...
da Romano family
One of the leading families of northeast Italy between the 12th and the 13th centuries. It took its name from the district of Romano, between Vicenza and Treviso, but most ...
della Torre family
Struggled against the Visconti for the hegemony over Milan between the second half of the 13th century and 1311. Between 1259 and 1277 it took control of the city, where ...
despotism and tyranny
The ‘tyrant’ was the antithesis of the good ruler. Given the assumption that rulership operated within a moral framework, a monarch who acted for his/her own benefit rather than the ...
Giovanni Conversino
(1343–1408),schoolmaster, humanist, and statesman, was born in Buda, where his father was physician to King Louis of Hungary, but raised in Ravenna. Educated in Ferrara and at the Universities ...
Bardi
A family of Florentine merchant bankers who in the late thirteenth century established branches in Italian city-states, England, Flanders, and France. In the early fourteenth century they were the ...
Carrara family
A family whose members ruled Padua from 1318 to 1388 and, after a two-year interregnum during which the city was held by Gian Galeazzo Visconti of Milan, from 1390 to ...
Giovanni Sercambi
(1348–1424), Italian novella writer and historian.Many of his Novelle (Novellas, 1390–1402) borrow from popular genres such as fabliaux, anecdotes, oral poetry, and fairy tales. Fairy-tale motifs are ...
Francesco Vettori
(1474–1539),Florentine statesman, diplomat, and historian who entered the civic government after the expulsion of the Medici in 1494. He became a member of the Signoria in 1503 and in ...
lordship and town
The central MA can be considered a turning point for the organizational systems of towns and the relations with their lords.1. Towns after the Roman Empire2. The ‘communal movement’3. ‘Communal ...
Bergamo
Situated in the present-day Italian region of Lombardy, the city of Bergamo lies close to the Alpine foothills. During Lombard rule (568/9–774), it was the site of an important duchy ...
Brescia
A fortified city and episcopal see in Lombardy. In 1426 Brescia passed from the Visconti family to Venice, to which it belonged until 1797. In February 1512, during the Wars ...
