Priorato

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Priorato

a municipal administrative body in some medieval Italian communes, such as those of Florence, Arezzo, and Volterra. In these communes, power was held by the popolani (urban shopkeepers and artisans). The priorato was also known as the signoria.

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