Noveschi

Proper noun

 * 1)  The nine ruling councillors comprising the government of Siena during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
 * 2) *2011,, The Pursuit of Italy, Penguin 2012, p. 65:
 * Standing there, you might feel you were before a just and more or less ideal government, which is what the noveschi thought they were.
 * 1) *2012, Konrad Eisenbichler, The Sword and the Pen,
 * Laudemia may well have been part of a subtle maneuver on the part of the Noveschi to ingratiate the imperial family to their cause.