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gonfaloniere

In Medieval and Renaissance Italy, an official responsible for a specific area of a city. In Florence the title was attached to the chief member of the council of magistrates. The word derives from gonfalone (military banner), which, by extension, also came to mean a subdivision of a city with its own section of militia.



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The first documented mention of the militia project in Machiavelli's correspondence occurred in a letter of 29 May 1504 from his friend Francesco Soderini, the cardinal of Volterra and the brother of the gonfalonier Piero Soderini.
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