Honorati, landowners, defenders, and curials of city of Tridentum (Trento)

Not an individual but a collective body of local notables at Tridentum (modern Trento, in the Alpine territory of northern Italy), addressed as a group in an official letter of the Variae, the collected state correspondence Cassiodorus composed for the Ostrogothic kings in the early sixth century. The honorati (men of rank, often retired officials), possessores (landowners), defensores (the defensor civitatis, the official charged with protecting townspeople against abuse), and curiales (members of the town council, or curia, responsible for local administration and tax collection) together made up the governing class of a late Roman city. As a recipient, this entry reflects the standard practice of Ostrogothic chancery letters being directed to a city's collective leadership rather than to one named person; nothing further is known of the specific individuals behind the address.