magnifico

noun2

1. •
   (historical) A grandee or nobleman of the Republic of Venice.

   • I know—I've heard—but no wealth of the imagination can ever really quite reconstruct Tupworthy, the shoddy magnifico, in his immense porcine complacency, his monumental self-importance. — 1923
2. •
   (no longer used) A rector of a German university.