Podestà (Lat. potestas, 'power'), an Italian municipal magistrate, sometimes with supreme administrative and military power, sometimes merely judicial.
Podestà
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Podestà (Lat. potestas, 'power'), an Italian municipal magistrate, sometimes with supreme administrative and military power, sometimes merely judicial.