Pistoia

[ pee-staw-yah ]

noun

1. a city in N Tuscany, in N Italy.

Pistoia

/ pisˈtoːja /

noun

1. a city in N Italy, in N Tuscany: scene of the defeat and death of Catiline in 62 bc Pop: 84 274 (2001)

Example Sentences

For this Siena was lopped like a lily on her hills, and Lucca pruned like her own olive trees, and Pistoia gathered in the plain.

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The year following, the people of Prato, in the Diocese of Pistoia, arose in arms against the tyrannical bishop.

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It was the Florentine traditional policy to keep Pisa by fortresses and Pistoia by factions.

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Garzia, who produced several fresco works at Pistoia, tolerably well executed.

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The third poet among the followers of the new school was Cino da Pistoia, of the family of the Sinibuldi.

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