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Siena: The Story of a Mediaeval Commune

Ferdinand Schevill · Chapman and Hall (London) · 1909

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Author
Ferdinand Schevill
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2026-09-01
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Older narrative history drawing on the 1309–1310 constitution; full text on the Internet Archive. It dates the fixed college of Nine to 1292.

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EstablishedFrom 1287 to 1355 Siena was governed by a college of Nine serving two-month terms, drawn from merchant families and excluding members of magnate houses, alongside a foreign podestà and a large General Council.EstablishedIn 1309–1310 the Sienese commune had its constitution (the Costituto) translated into the vernacular.