241. 3 "_a secco_." Fresco painting in secco is that kind which absorbs the colours into the plaster and gives them a dry sunken appearance.--_Fairholt_. 263. 31 "affair of the Ciompi": the name given to the rising of the lesser people against the powerful guilds, resulting in a wider distribution of the powers of government. The lower classes won and appointed Michele del Lando as their Gonfaloniere. Ciompi means the lowest classes. 265. 14. "200,000 scudi," worth about L44,444, 9s.