Fiesole

American  

[fye-zaw-le] / ˈfyɛ zɔ lɛ /

noun

1. Giovanni da Angelico, Fra.

2. a town in central Italy, near Florence: Etruscan and ancient Roman ruins; cathedral.

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Fiesole ¹ British  

/ ˈfiɛːzole /

noun

1. Ancient name: Faesulae.  a town in central Italy, in Tuscany near Florence: Etruscan and Roman remains. Pop: 14 085 (2001)

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Fiesole ² British  

/ ˈfiɛːzole /

noun

1. Giovanni da (dʒoˈvanni da) the monastic name of (Fra) Angelico

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Example Sentences

Fiesole has basically become a high-altitude Florentine suburb.

From Washington Post • Oct. 14, 2020

The 1980s greeted the Bellini, a Titian and a Hendrick Goltzius masterpiece, with exceptional works added in the 1990s by Gerrit van Honthorst, the unidentified Master of the Fiesole Epiphany and the outstanding Sweerts.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2020

Among his closest friends was an extroverted antiques-mad Milanese doctor, Gianni Garani, whose rustic villa in Fiesole, five miles from Florence, was one of Mongiardino’s earliest commissions, begun in the early 1950s.

From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2016

Home favorite Vincenzo Nibali, who launched the decisive attack in the Fiesole climb despite crashing earlier in the 272.3-km race, had to settle for fourth.

From Reuters • Sep. 29, 2013

A little to the left is the famous Badia di Fiesole, originally of the eleventh century, but rebuilt for Cosimo the Elder by Filippo Brunelleschi.

From The Story of Florence by Gardner, Edmund G.