rionen.

1620 N. Brent tr. P. Sarpi Hist. Councel of Trent v. 403 The Pope armed the Citizens, and inhabitants of Rome..to the number of 5000. distributing them vnder the Heads of the Rioni, for so they were called.

1671 J. Gailhard Present State Princes Italy (new ed.) 55 Whether they be Civil, as Governour of Rome, divided into 14 Rioni or Quarters.

1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. II. 329 Rome is divided into fourteen Rioni or quarters.

1812 A. Lumisden Remarks Antiq. Rome (ed. 2) Introd. 30 The police of the city..engaged Pope Benedict XIV. to divide modern Rome..into fourteen quarters, or what are now called rioni.

1867 ‘G. Greenwood’ Stories & Sights of France & Italy xxvi. 279 They belonged to the Trastevere, a rione, or quarter, of Rome.

1936 G. F.-H. Berkeley & J. Berkeley Italy in Making II. vii. 115 The orders were sent out to the heads of each of the rioni (fourteen in number) in Rome. Each head of a rione sent his orders to his capi-squadra (heads of squadrons).

1965 C. Hibbert Garibaldi & his Enemies i. iv. 50 In every rione deputies were appointed to take command of the citizens when the bells of the Capitol and Montecitorio summoned them to arms.

2003 R. G. Musto Apocalypse in Rome i. 27 For the fourteenth century..the region or rione of Rome, the parish, his parents' occupations, and the location of his home would have stood out like road signs, signifiers of family, social status, and economic class.