Michele di Lando

…their members, the wool carder Michele di Lando, in the important executive office of gonfaloniere of justice. The new government, controlled by the minor guilds, was novel in that for the first time it represented all the classes of society, including the ciompi, who were raised to the status of…

Michele di Lando, foreman in a cloth factory, was appointed to the balìa as “standard-bearer of justice.”