Published anonymously, but written by the Jesuit Pere Bougeant.
In his desperation he emancipated his serfs, and so the folk of the Contado profited by the dissensions of the cities and their feudal masters.
The Communes were not districts, like the Swiss Cantons, but towns at war with the Contadoround them and at war among themselves.
It was speedily discovered that the war against the Castles had become a war against the Palaces, and that the arena had been transferred from the open Contado to the Piazza and the barricade.
Santini has treated of this question in his article entitled "Condizione personale degli abitanti del contado nel secolo xiii.
Mediceans prevailed upon the Duke of Urbino in January, 1522, to invade the Sienese contado in favour of Lattanzio Petrucci, also an ecclesiastic and a cousin of Borghese; but with no result.
The motion being carried, the terra of the noble castle of San Gimignano and its contado and district became part of the contado of the Commune of Florence.
The beauty of the Sienese contado is clearly on the sandstone, not upon the clay.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contado" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
