The next election to the signory (governing body) favored the Medici, and Cosimo was recalled (1434). ❋ Unknown (2001)
His father had equipped seven hundred heavy men at arms for him, and, August 18th, the Venetian ambassador reported to the signory that he had been requested by the Pope to ask the Doge to withdraw their protection from ❋ Ferdinand Gregorovius (N/A)
Venetian ambassador, first mentioned the project to his signory November ❋ Ferdinand Gregorovius (N/A)
For the ancients of Pisa have met for the last time; the signory of Florence plots no more; no more will any Emperor with the pride of a barbarian, the mien of a beggar or a thief, cross the Alps, or such an one as ❋ Edward Hutton (1922)
Duke of Lucca, attempted the like in central Italy; but his signory perished with him. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
And she answered: Son, attemper thy wrath and tarry a little, I have a true servant and a noble fighter against the vices, which shall run over all and vanquish the world, and subdue them under thy signory, and I shall give to them another servant into his help that shall fight as he doth. ❋ 1230-1298 (1900)
Chigi too had instituted such search as was possible without putting the matter in the hands of the authorities, which would have brought about awkward complications with the signory of Florence. ❋ Unknown (1886)
Each signory, barony and colony consisted of 12,000 acres, and it was provided that after a certain term of years the "proprietors" should not have power to alienate or make over their proprietorship, but that "it should descend unto their heirs male." ❋ Unknown (1875)
"And as the people had now taken state and signory on themselves, they ordered, for greater strength of the people, that all the towers of Florence -- and there were many 180 feet high [1] -- should be cut down to 75 feet, and no more; and so it was done, and with the stones of them they walled the city on the other side Arno." ❋ John Ruskin (1859)
'If a prince of Eldorado should come, with a pedigree of lineal descent from some signory in the moon in one hand, and a ticket of good-behaviour from the nearest Independent chapel, in the other' --? ❋ Robert Browning (1850)
The signory, seeing the urgency of the case, sent to the brotherhood, commanding them to surrender the prior, and the two Dominicans who had presented themselves in his stead to the trial by fire. ❋ William Godwin (1796)
On the 17th, being the eve of St Luke, he caused the head of one of the people belonging to the Venetian gallies to be cut off, merely for saying, _the signory of Venice is not dead_. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)
For which cause it is that the censors do not ballot at the urns; the signory also abstains, lest it should deform the house: wherefore the blanks in the side urns are by so many the fewer. ❋ James Harrington (1644)
The ballotins having thus gathered the suffrages, bring them before the signory, in whose presence the outward boxes being opened, they take out the inner boxes, whereof the affirmative is white, and the negative green, and pour the white in the bowl N on the right hand, which is white also, and the green into the bowl N on the left, which is also green. ❋ James Harrington (1644)
The rest of the ballot is conformable to that of the tribe; the censors of the house sitting at the side urn, and the youngest magistrate of the signory at the middle, the urns being placed before the throne, and prepared according to the number of the magistrates to be at that time chosen by the rules already given to the censors of the tribes. ❋ James Harrington (1644)
The signory, with the whole right and use of that magistracy to be hereafter more fully explained, is almost purely Venetian. ❋ James Harrington (1644)
"The strategus sitting with six commissioners, being councillors of the nation, are the signory of the commonwealth." ❋ James Harrington (1644)
Of these magistrates of this upper stage consists the signory. ❋ James Harrington (1644)
"But the strategus with the six commissioners is the signory of this commonwealth, having right of session and suffrage in every council of the Senate, and power either jointly or severally to propose in all or any of them." ❋ James Harrington (1644)
The suffrage being gathered and opened before the signory, if the red box or non-sincere had above half the suffrages, the opinions shall be all cast out, for the major part of the house is not clear in the business. ❋ James Harrington (1644)
