A Signoria (siɲɲoˈria; from Signore or Lord) was an abstract noun meaning (roughly) `government; governing authority; de facto sovereignty; lordship` in many of the Italian city states during the medieval and renaissance periods. ==The perennial `power vacuum` of medieval Italy== In the sixth century AD, the Emperor Justinian reconquered It...
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(Italian: `lordship`), in the medieval and Renaissance Italian city-states, a government run by a signore (lord, or despot) that replaced republican ... [2 related articles]
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