Mantuan

American  

[man-choo-uhn] / ˈmæn tʃu ən /

noun

1. a native or inhabitant of Mantua, a city in northern Italy.

2. the Mantuan, a title for the Roman poet Virgil.

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adjective

1. of or relating to the northern Italian city of Mantua.

Example Sentences

Designer Richard Hudson gives us a landscape like a Mantegna painting, the women in bright, colour-blocked skirts, the men in the red caps, belted tunics and pied tights of the late 15th-century Mantuan court.

From The Guardian • Apr. 20, 2013

In this tactile show with surfaces of soft napa leather or fluffy alpaca, a stand-out piece among the fine knitwear was a sweater with interlinked rings inspired by Mantuan frescoes. 

From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2013

European cooks have a lot of dynamic pumpkin recipes that rely less on sweet spice and more on the pumpkin's own sunny flavor: Think of the stuffed Mantuan pasta that Mario Batali popularized at Babbo.

From Slate • Nov. 23, 2011

The selection begins on a grandiose note with a set of 10 oddly shaped copper plates on which, around 1549, the Mantuan artist Giorgio Ghisi engraved a print version of Michelangelo’s “Last Judgment.”

From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2011

Luckily, fate handed that baton to Monteverdi, whose 'musical fable’ for the Mantuan court, Orfeo, premiered in 1607.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall