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LECTURE 2 "Magnates and Popolani"

Italian City-States at the Time of Dante • 1h 11m

Many popular communes adopted prescriptive or proscriptive meas­ures that targeted those they designated as ‘magnates’, families officially identified by the presence of members with titles of knighthood or by their reputation for lawlessness and violence. These criteria, especially the latter, were flexible enough to encompass the older noble families and the newly rich who emulated their lifestyle.

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