Bandello

[ bahn-del-law ]

noun

1. Mat·te·o [maht-, te, -aw], 1485–1561, Italian ecclesiastic and author.

Example Sentences

Inspired in part by the takedown of Al Capone for tax fraud and mobster Rico “Little Caesar” Bandello, the 1970 federal law was one of the first to, in a really big way, make it possible for prosecutors to go after an entire “group” of people, rather than having to target criminals one at a time. 

From Salon

Edward G. Robinson’s performance in this 1931 crime drama, as Caesar Enrico Bandello, a small-time hood who dreams of the big time and crashes the Chicago rackets, sets the tone for the vulgar preening and sneering pugnacity of the tough-talking Hollywood mobster, and Mervyn LeRoy’s cold, efficient direction—less a result of his own artistry than of the constraints of the first years of sound recording—imposes a static rigor on the action and the diction which rises to the grandeur of a sculptural, granitic force.

From The New Yorker

At other times," says Bandello, "he would remain three or four days without touching it, only coming for an hour or two, and remaining with crossed arms contemplating his figures, as if criticising them himself.

From Project Gutenberg

Of the prose works of Giraldi the most important is the Hecatommithi or Ecatomiti, a collection of tales told somewhat after the manner of Boccaccio, but still more closely resembling the novels of Giraldi’s contemporary Bandello, only much inferior in workmanship to the productions of either author in vigour, liveliness and local colour.

From Project Gutenberg

The popularity of the story is further proved by the Spanish romance, El Conde de Barcelona y la Emperatriz de Alemania; the French romance L'Histoire de Palanus, Comte de Lyon; and a novel of Bandello, the 44th of the Second Part.

From Project Gutenberg