 This included setting up a senate along the lines of the ancient one.The revolutionaries divided Rome into fourteen "regions", each electing four senators for a total of 56 (although one source, often repeated, gives a total of 50).These senators, the first real senators since the 7th century, elected as their leader Giordano Pierleoni, son of the Roman consul Pier Leoni, with the title patrician, since the term "consul" had been deprecated as a noble styling.