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Article: Instruments of concord: making peace and settling disputes through a notary in the city and contado of late medieval Bologna.(SECTION III COMMUNITY INSTITUTIONS)(Report)
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- Journal of Social History
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- March 22, 2009
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On January 1, 1339 Taddeo Pepoli, Bologna's first signorial lord, stood with three law professors, Paolo Liazari, Maccagnano degli Azzoguidi, and Pietro Bompietri, and about seventy leading citizens from the dominant Scacchese faction to negotiate an end to the interdict placed on the town by Pope Benedict XII when Taddeo had seized power as signore on August 28, 1337. While bearing the title of "supreme and perpetual preserver of peace and justice" Taddeo protested the pope's demand that exiles of factional violence be allowed to return to the city, reasoning that this would only produce more bloodshed for "there is nothing sweeter or more delightful for a man than to ...