Example sentences for: florentine-born

How can you use “florentine-born” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • For Florentine-born Dante, they have to be content with a cenotaph, as Ravenna, his burial place, refuses to part with his remains (he was exiled from Florence for political reasons).

  • Michelangelo’s tomb (right aisle, second bay) was designed by Vasari, with symbolic statues of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture mourning beneath a bust of the Florentine-born artist who died at 89.

  • It’s an easy walk to Piazza San Marco and the Dominican Monastery of San Marco, an evocative setting for a museum largely devoted to the paintings of Florentine-born Fra Angelico (1387–1455), who lived here as a monk.

  • It was a foreigner, German Emperor Frederick II, who launched the movement for a national language at his court in Palermo, but Florentine-born Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) provided the ardor, moral leadership, and literary example to bring it to fruition.


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