Editing Padua (section)

===Emergence of the Signoria===
[[Jacopo I da Carrara|Jacopo da Carrara]] was elected lord (''signore'') of Padua in 1318, at that point the city was home to 40,000 people.<ref name="google2">{{cite book |title=People, Land, and Politics: Demographic Developments and the Transformation of Roman Italy 300&nbsp;BC-AD 14 |author1=de Ligt, L. |author2=Northwood, S.J. |date=2008 |publisher=Brill |isbn=9789004171183 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4toKjuTLOQUC |page=150 |access-date=10 October 2014 }}</ref> From then till 1405, nine members of the [[Carraresi family]], including Ubertino, Jacopo II, and Francesco il Vecchio, succeeded one another as lords of the city, with the exception of a brief period of [[House of Scaliger|Scaligeri]] overlordship between 1328 and 1337 and two years (1388–1390) when [[Gian Galeazzo Visconti|Giangaleazzo Visconti]] held the town. The period of the ''signoria'' is covered down to 1358 in the chronicle of [[Guglielmo Cortusi]].

The Carraresi period was a long period of restlessness, for the Carraresi were constantly at war. Under Carraresi rule the early humanist circles in the university were effectively disbanded: [[Albertino Mussato]], the first modern [[poet laureate]], died in exile at [[Chioggia]] in 1329, and the eventual heir of the Paduan tradition was the Tuscan [[Petrarch]].<ref>Weiss 1973:21.</ref>

In 1387 [[John Hawkwood]] won the [[Battle of Castagnaro]] for Padua, against [[Giovanni Ordelaffi]], for [[Verona]]. The Carraresi period finally came to an end as the power of the Visconti and of Venice grew in importance.