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Social Sciences - History / medieval administration | | Italian term or phrase: magistratura | My document refers to maps produced by the "maristratura fiorentina" del 500.,
"la cartografia storica prodotta dalle magistrature fiorentine a partire dalla metà del Cinquecento"
I have no idea exactly who these authorities were ? Some form of judiciary or were they called magistrates? Administrators?
Many thanks for help |
|  LorraineBKudoZ activityQuestions: 60 (none open) ( 6 closed without grading) Answers: 341
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| | magistrates | Explanation:
This terms appears frequently in the literature. |
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7 hrs confidence:
1 day20 hrs confidence: the (Florentine) judiciary
Explanation:
magistrates is just plural for a magistrate.
If you want to keep that root, you would have to go with magistracy or
magistrature, which sound rather heavy.
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Note added at 2 days2 hrs (2012-01-14 22:38:31 GMT) Post-grading
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This is absolutely granted and without a doubt (re. your note to me). However, in my view, your choice is rather wrong. The term is not about, as you put it, "them" – the magistrates. They will be "i magistrati" now as they are in 1500, albeit with a different range of functions. "La magistratura" is "it" – not "them": it's an institution, not a bunch of magistrates, as I've ponted out in the explanation. To translate "magistratura" as "magistrates" ("i magistrati") is (well, almost) like translating "l'università" as "professors".
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Note added at 2 days12 hrs (2012-01-15 08:07:40 GMT) Post-grading
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Lorraine, I DID suggest that in my explanation. Unfortunately, one is hard-pressed for time, and often just doesn't have enough of it to do research in support of a particular suggestion. Them's the breaks... So, I usually suggest what I know (rather than simply suppose) and leave the verification to the interested party – the Asker. As for the points, for me the points are not the point :). I participate in this forum primarily for a selfish reason to keep my English more active in the overbearingly Italian linguistic environment; and, of course, for fun! Even helping translators becomes, in this context, a mere by-product. And the points... What do I do with them, eh? Cheers, M.
| Michael Korovkin
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Asker: thanks but in those days the 'magistratura' were rulers/counsellors etc (as I have now discovered, called magistrates like the modern judiciary) and their duties were far broader than merely ruling on crimes.
Asker: Yes, the 'corpus' was called the Florentine Magistrature (not judiciary)... had you suggested this, accompanied by references, of which there are plenty I now see, I might have awarded points differently
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| Jan 12 - Changes made by Russell Jones: | | Term asked | magistratura (del 500) => magistratura |
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