Writing on the walls: electoral inscriptions

The inscriptions on the walls give us information about electoral campaigns!
The names of the candidates are painted in large red and black letters on the walls along the streets, with slogans or promises to administrate the city well if elected. Candidates sought the support of the ‘power brokers,’ of the trade guilds, and of the inhabitants of the wards in the city, in a play of exchanges and favours that involved the whole town. The inscriptions were the work of professional writers, who preferred to work at night and sometimes signed their handiwork.