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Podesta   Listen
noun
Podesta  n.  
1.
One of the chief magistrates of the Italian republics in the Middle Ages.
2.
A mayor, alderman, or other magistrate, in some towns of Italy.





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"Podesta" Quotes from Famous Books



... enslaved. The Thessalian republics, united by an assembly of deputies from the various towns, elected for their head a species of protector—who appears to have possessed many of the characteristics of the podesta of the Italian states. His nominal station was that of military command—a station which, in all save the most perfect constitutions, comprehends also civil authority. The name of Tagus was given to ...
— Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... Gilenspetz alone lost two thousand sequins; the Jew Mendez lost about one thousand. Sunday was sanctified by rest, but on Monday the bank won four thousand sequins. On the Tuesday we all dined together, and the play was resumed; but we had scarcely begun when an officer of the podesta made his appearance and informed Croce that he wanted a little private conversation with him. They left the room together, and after a short absence Croce came back rather crestfallen; he announced that by superior orders he was forbidden to hold a ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt


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