inamorato
Americannoun
plural
inamoratosnoun
Etymology
Origin of inamorato
1585–95; < Italian innamorato, masculine past participle of innamorare to inflame with love. See enamor
Example Sentences
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A noteworthy example occurs in Boiardo's Orlando Inamorato, cc. xxv., xxvi.
From English Fairy Tales by Jacobs, Joseph
I'th' under column there doth stand Inamorato with folded hand; Down hangs his head, terse and polite, Some ditty sure he doth indite.
From The Anatomy of Melancholy by Burton, Robert
Chaucer, amongst us, is frequent in it: but this revolution particularly I have taken out of Luigi Pulci; and there is one almost the same in Boiardo's "Orlando Inamorato."
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Scott, Walter, Sir
Almost all Boiardo’s works, and especially his great poem of the Orlando Inamorato, were composed for the amusement of Duke Hercules and his court, though not written within its precincts.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various
Lucretia did not meet Bojardo, the famous author of the Orlando Inamorato, at the court of his friend Ercole, but the blind singer of the Mambriano, Francesco Cieco, probably was still living.
From Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day by Gregorovius, Ferdinand
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