List Of Podestà Of Rovereto
The following is a list of the Podestà of Rovereto from 1417 until 1752, ordered by the dates of their assignments which are put in parentheses. For about a century (from 1416 until 1509) Rovereto belonged to the Serenissima. The ''Palazzo Pretorio'', or ''Palazzo Podestà'', was the abode of the ''podestà''. The palace is typically Venetian, and was built by Andrea Valier, Rovereto's first ''podestà'', upon the Venetians' arrival in 1416. While the city was under Venetian sway for almost a century, today the ''Palazzo dei Podestà'' and the Castle are the only vestiges of Venetian rule. With the conclusion of the war against Venice conducted by the League of Cambrai and the Venetian defeat at the Battle of Agnadello, Rovereto was occupied by Imperial troops. Maximilian I confirmed the privileges and the statutes to the ''fedeli consoli e cittadini e alla comunità della città di Rovereto'' (''loyal consuls and citizens and the community of Rovereto''), thus confirming Ro ...
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Podestà
Podestà (, English: Potestate, Podesta) was the name given to the holder of the highest civil office in the government of the cities of Central and Northern Italy during the Late Middle Ages. Sometimes, it meant the chief magistrate of a city state, the counterpart to similar positions in other cities that went by other names, e.g. ''rettori'' ("rectors"). In the following centuries up to 1918, the term was used to designate the head of the municipal administration, particularly in the Italian-speaking territories of the Austrian Empire. The title was taken up again during the Fascist regime with the same meaning. The podestà's office, its duration and the residence and the local jurisdiction were called ''podesteria'', especially during the Middle Ages, and in later centuries, more rarely during the fascist regime. Currently, ''podestà'' is the title of mayors in Italian-speaking municipalities of Graubünden in Switzerland, but is not the case for the rest of the C ...
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