impresa
noun
a device or emblem.
Example Sentences
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The principal requisites of such a drama are summed up by Dryden in the first two lines of the "Orlando Furioso," "Le Donne, i cavalier, l'arme, gli amori Le cortesie, l'audaci imprese."
From The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author by George Saintsbury
And to call Theseus backe from his begunne imprese and bold attempt, and to terrifie the Gyant Typhon, and to make the proudest and stoutest heart whatsoeuer to quaile and stoope.
From Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame by Robert Dallington
Sometimes other discussions arose about different matters, or biting retorts passed lightly back and forth; often imprese, as we now call them, were displayed.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various
To revert, as before, to Ariosto's programme, it was not the arme and audaci imprese which Keats sang, but the donne, the amori, and the cortesie.
From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
