Example sentences for: francesco

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

  • Room 17: Canaletto’s hugely popular 18th-century vedute (views) of Venice were aristocratic precursors of modern postcards; in such works as Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Francesco Guardi achieved both poetry and melancholy.

  • Schettino , for instance, can be a diminutive of Francesco ; but it also translates as careless.

  • Next to the church of San Francesco, in a building of 1780, is the tomb of Dante, who died here, in exile, in 1321, with a fellow poet’s epitaph: “Here I lie buried, Dante, exiled from my birthplace, son of Florence, that loveless mother. ”

  • But, to the inherent music of their language (would Rigoletto sound the same if we knew Giuseppe Verdi as Joseph Green?), the Italians added something more--a game of phonetic theme and variation seemingly unmatched in other countries, a game whose wild rules allow Francesco to become Frances-chielli or Francescuzzi, Cesco or Schetti, Cicco or Zotti, Cicconetti or Ciccarelli .

  • The basilica of San Francesco is in fact two churches, one above the other, built on top of the saint’s simple tomb in the crypt.


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