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Hence, all those who in Florence are deprived of the power to hold offices are called ammoniti, or ADMONISHED. The Capitani in time acquiring greater audacity, admonished not only those to whom the admonition was applicable, but any others at the suggestion of their own avarice or ambition; and from 1356, when this law was made, to 1366, there had been admonished above 200 citizens.

Niccolò Machiavelli - History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy