campanili
- plural of campanile.
Example Sentences
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Florence raises his wonderful bell-tower, that lily among campanili, to the sky; and preserves two chapels of S. Croce, illuminated by him with paintings from the stories of S. Francis and S. John.
From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by Symonds, John Addington
Cypresses and campanili defined themselves in the landscape as the evening advanced.
From Evelyn Innes by Moore, George (George Augustus)
S. Francesco is a fine Gothic church with two elegant campanili.
From Cathedral Cities of Italy by Collins, William Wiehe
For though sweet are the bells that ring out from the tall campanili of Rome, Ah! they are not the dearer and sweeter ones, tuned with the memory of home.
From Poems by MacCarthy, Denis Florence
The background of the scene is filled up by a semicircle of well-wooded hills, verdant with vines, fig, orange, olive and pomegranate trees, and sparkling with white country-seats, convents, and campanili.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 88, April, 1875 by Various
