Commune of Romeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

In the 12th century the Commune of Rome was briefly established in Rome beginning in 1144, in opposition to the temporal power of the higher nobles and the popes. In an effort to reestablish a government like the old Roman Republic, the revolutionaries set up a senate on the lines of the ancient one: dividing Rome into fourteen regions, each electing four senators for a total of 56 (though one source, oft repeated, gives a total of 50). These senators, the first real senators since the 7th century (the senatorial title had become a meaningless adjunct title of nobility by then), elected as their leader Giordano Pierleoni, son of the Roman consul Pier Leoni with the title patrician, because consul was also a deprecated noble styling.