Sala del Maggior Consiglio: The Patriarch giving a Blessed Candle to the Doge.
A few years later, a still greater hall being needed, the present Sala del Maggior Consiglio was erected, and this was ready for use in 1423.
The four plain windows and the very graceful balcony belong to the Sala del Maggior Consiglio.
The maggior dolore and the miseria have lasted longer than the tempo felice.
So they falsified the confessions, and read the falsification aloud in the Sala del Maggior Consiglio, to the bewilderment of all Savonarola's quondam disciples who were there.
In the latter case I hope nobody will ever ask me the question Farinato addresses to Dante in the Inferno: "Chi fur i maggior tuoi"--as I should be rather ashamed to mention these ancestors.
It is in this provision that we find the essence of the Serrata del Maggior Consiglio.
He could not preside without his Council "in the Maggior Consiglio, or in the Senate, or in the College; but four ducal councillors had the power to preside without the Doge.
The Maggior Consiglio was its own architect, and would not have empowered a tagliapietra, however eminent, to act on his own responsibility.
Subsequently it became customary to add twenty members to the Council, elected in the Maggior Consiglio, for each important case as it arose.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "maggior" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
