Example sentences for: signoria

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

  • Our itineraries divide the city’s heart into four quarters: from the Duomo north to Piazza San Marco; from the Piazza della Signoria, its Palazzo Vecchio and the Uffizi Galleries east to Piazza Santa Croce; from the Mercato Nuovo west to Piazza Santa Maria Novella; and the southern “Left Bank” of the Arno River around the Pitti Palace and the Piazzale Michelangelo.

  • Four years later, when Savonarola declined to test the validity of his apocalyptic prophesies with an ordeal by fire, he was arrested, hanged, and ironically burned on the Piazza della Signoria.

  • After a brief stint living in the Palazzo Vecchio in the Piazza della Signoria, Duke Cosimo I and his wife, Eleonora of Toledo, acquired the palace from the bankrupt Pitti merchant family in 1549 as the Medici’s official residence; it was enlarged and embellished substantially over the centuries.

  • Piazza della Signoria is Florence’s civic and social center.

  • The Accademia’s uncontested star, the great David (which once stood in the Piazza della Signoria, now substituted by a life-size copy), provides the perfect object lesson of the finished product, a hero infused with all the contained energy needed to hurl that stone at Goliath.


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