Noveschi

English

Proper noun

Noveschi

1. (historical) The nine ruling councillors comprising the government of Siena during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
   • 2011, David Gilmour, The Pursuit of Italy, Penguin 2012, p. 65:

     Standing there, you might feel you were before a just and more or less ideal government, which is what the noveschi thought they were.

   • 2012, Konrad Eisenbichler, The Sword and the Pen,

     Laudemia may well have been part of a subtle maneuver on the part of the Noveschi to ingratiate the imperial family to their cause.