Example sentences for: signoria

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

  • 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.

  • Site of the stoic town hall (Palazzo Vecchio or della Signoria) since 1299, the square bustles in all seasons, not least because it leads to the richest of Italy’s art museums, the Uffizi.

  • At the south end of the square is the 14th-century Loggia della Signoria or dei Lanzi, transformed from the city fathers’ ceremonial grandstand into a guardroom for Swiss mercenary Lands­knechte.

  • 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.

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


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