people looked to strong men to restore order and disarm the feuding elites.

Henry Hallam would remark that "I know not of any English word that characterises them, except tyrant in its primitive sense."

Politics

By the beginning of the 14th century, a number of cities in northern Italy were ruled by signori: Milan by the Visconti family, Ferrara by the Este, Verona by the Della Scala, Padua by the Carrara. The earliest signori in Tuscany were the condottieri

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