signiory
Americannoun
plural
signioriesExample Sentences
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His successor was Fr� Michele di Lapo, and in 1350 we find the Signiory writing to the pope with the request that he be placed in the bishopric of Florence, which had become vacant.
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In Venice the compromise reached in 1289 between the signiory and Nicholas IV., whereby the republic permitted the introduction of the Inquisition, provided that all receipts of the Holy Office should be for the benefit of the State, and this arrangement seems to have been maintained.
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The inquisitor and episcopal ordinaries proceeded against them vigorously, but the Signiory of Venice interposed and appealed to Leo X., who appointed his nuncio at Venice to revise the trials.
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In 1293 was created the office of gonfalonier of justice, who carried out the orders of the signiory.
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By the end of the 14th century the gonfalonier was the chief of the signiory.
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