annona

Since the Middle Ages, all Italian cities had provisioned themselves at the countryside’s expense through a system known as the annona.

Delizia! John Dickie 2008

Bakers, merchants, and annona officials became powerful vested interests.

Delizia! John Dickie 2008

In Naples, the annona was in the hands of a cabal of corrupt city magnates and nobles, and the royal government was too weak to counter their influence.

Delizia! John Dickie 2008

After the famine of 1763–64 there was talk of abolishing the annona and introducing a free market in grain.

Delizia! John Dickie 2008

But many annona systems became fiendishly complex as the different political factions within the city wrestled over the power to distribute food: there were depots and distribution centers, inspectorates and tribunals; there were grain quotas and regulations on the precise size of a loaf of bread; in some places, storing corn in the countryside was banned.

Delizia! John Dickie 2008

In other systems D. latifolia is planted with mango, annona, jackfruit, and guava.

Chapter 22 1990

This pattern of shifting between his pet mutations and the new annona became established by the middle of the thirteenth volume and continued through the fifteenth.

Blood Test Jonathan Kellerman 1986

This pattern of shifting between his pet mutations and the new annona became established by the middle of the thirteenth volume and continued through the fifteenth.

Blood Test Jonathan Kellerman 1986

I looked through all of them but could find no reference to annona zingiber.

Blood Test Jonathan Kellerman 1986

I looked through all of them but could find no reference to annona zingiber.

Blood Test Jonathan Kellerman 1986