broletto
- noun
- /brəˈlɛtoʊ/
- Archaic
- The old town square featured a magnificent broletto, where citizens gathered for important assemblies and civic meetings.
- broletto-style palaces
- broletto town halls
- broletto-type
Examples
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Novara's communal piazza, the Broletto, began as an open space for the market, delimited only on the north side by the new Palazzo del Comune.
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As early as 1210, consuls imposed order and security by erecting a geometrically regular, gated wall around the Broletto.
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Elite raised-chamber buildings, such as feasting rooms or open market halls, are possible precedents for broletto-type town halls.
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In their general architectural outline, the broletto-style palaces might well have reminded residents of recent twelfth-century episcopal palaces in their cities.
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With the power of the guilds at its height in Novara, the city began to replace the wall around the Broletto square with porticoed buildings (Fig. 6).
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The Loggia degli Osii (Fig. 11) existed on the Broletto Nuovo in some form by 1246 (see n. 61 below).
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Yet, as if reiterating the strident regional politics of inclusion and exclusion, the loggias lacked the "big tent" gesture of the northern broletto-type undercrofts discussed above.
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Elevated loggias and new versions of broletto-type town halls would reappear in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in northern towns subject to the more liberal oligarchic rule of the Republic of Venice.
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The ground-floor portico of so-called broletto-type palaces was first commissioned by noble consuls in northern Italy starting in the late twelfth century and continued through the thirteenth.
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In the heart of the city stood a historic broletto, serving as the central hub for political discussions and community events.
Synonyms
96
1.5
A building where local government offices work and meet the public
How Public
- US
13
2.7
96
1.5
- Archaic
4
2.7
739
1.0
1
2.5
Surface Forms
Etymology
Broletto comes from the old Italian brolo, which means 'enclosed garden' or 'small orchard'. In the Middle Ages the town meeting place was often the open area by a brolo, so broletto came to mean the town hall where people met.