emborsations

Updated: April 30, 2025

These emborsations were afterward called Squittini, or pollings, and it was thought they would prevent much trouble to the city, and remove the cause of those tumults which every three, or at most five, years, took place upon the creation of magistrates, from the number of candidates for office.

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