Valentina Costantini

Siena 1318: la congiura di «carnaioli», notai e magnati contro il governo dei Nove

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  • During the 14th century
  • Siena's butchers set in montion three revolts against the city government.
  • Certainly
  • although the most famous occurred against the Nine in 1318
  • this government
  • despite its long duration (1287-1355)
  • faced serious forms of political dissent on more than one occasion. The city's guilds
  • even the strong one of butchers and animal dealers
  • had no access to the government
  • although they were not formally excluded from it.
  • However
  • butchers' rebellions cannot be considered artisans' or workers' revolts
  • because the butchers always acted jointly with judges
  • notaries and powerful magnates &ndash
  • and not only against the government of the Nine. Starting from the so-called 1318 rebellion
  • current research is studying Sienese butchers and their conspiracies throughout the 14th century

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