Popolo Grasso

Popolo Grasso

 

(literally, plump urban citizens), a stratum of wealthy townsmen in Italian communes of the 13th through 15th centuries.

REFERENCES

Gukovskii, M. A. Ital’ianskoe Vozrozhdenie, vol. 1. Leningrad, 1947. Pages 46–59 and 161–67.
Rutenburg, V. I. Narodnye dvizheniia v gorodakh Italii: XIVnachalo XV v. Moscow-Leningrad, 1958. Pages 72–73 and 293–327.