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‖ monte di pietà|ˈmonte di pjeta| Also monte de pietà. Pl. monti di pietà. [It.] = mount of piety (see mount n.1 5 b).
1654J. Howell Parthenopoeia Epistle to Reader sig. A1v Monte de pietà, an Hospital of 60000. Duckets of yeerly Revenue. 1805P. Beckford Familiar Lett. from Italy I. 231 The Monte di Pietà was established first at Florence, in the year 1496, to restrain the usury of the Jews. 1883Athenæum 18 Aug. 218/1 The..186 first-class pictures from the Monte di Pietà, where they had been pawned ages ago by destitute aristocratic families. 1973Listener 18 Jan. 81/2 These Christian pawnshops, still in existence in Italy today, were known as Monti di Pieta or ‘funds of charity’. When they were first founded, in Umbrian towns of the mid-15th century, they charged low interest rates. |