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1676 Earl of Monmouth & W. Brent tr. G. Gualdo Priorato Hist. France x. 484 There was a Marriage concluded between Don Maffeo Barberini..and a little Niece of the Pope, in consideration of which Marriage the Prince Prefetto was promoted to be Cardinal, and renounced the Inheritance unto his said Brother the Bridegroom.

1743 R. Pococke Descr. East I. 147 The first account I had of it..being from a manuscript journal, writ by the present Prefetto of Egypt.

1764 T. Harmer Observ. Passages Script. v. §4. 213 These valedictory songs..which the Prefetto takes notice of.

1846 Times 30 Mar. 5/6 Although of course Botelli is no substitute for Lablache, yet the Prefetto is a character of minor importance.

1896 Classical Rev. 10 236/2 Signor Carlo Castellani, Prefetto of the Marciana at Venice, has begun a catalogue of the accessions to that great Library since Zanetti's catalogue of 1740.

1949 E. Pound Pisan Cantos (new ed.) lxxvi. 43 This wind out of Carrara Is soft as un terzo cielo said the Prefetto.

1995 Irish Times (Nexis) 5 July 10 Nowadays, neither Paolo nor his father earn their living from the rich land of their region. Paolo is a prefetto (prefect), while his father is manager of a local factory.