Paduan

American  

[paj-oo-uhn, pahj-oo-uhn] / ˈpædʒ u ən, ˈpɑdʒ u ən /

adjective

1. of or relating to Padua or its inhabitants.

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noun

plural

Paduans

1. a native or inhabitant of Padua.

Example Sentences

In the second half of the 1590s, his personal commitments had increased when he established a stable relationship with Marina Gamba, a local Paduan woman from a lower social class.

From Literature

At the time of his Paduan lecture, less than a decade after the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the printing revolution was only just beginning to get under way: Euclid, for example, was first printed in Latin only in 1482, in Greek in 1533, in Italian in 1543 and in English in 1570.

From Literature

It had formed part of the Paduan library of Giovanni Vincenzo Pinelli, a library in which Galileo read hard-to-find books, and the whole library had been sold on Pinelli’s death and loaded on to ships for transport from Venice to Naples.

From Literature

A prodigy apprenticed as a child to a Paduan artist, Mantegna is less elusive because he was an argumentative soul and his life can be tracked in legal actions.

From The Guardian

Going back even further in time, he argued that the humanist project of the Paduan poets Lovato dei Lovati and Albertino Mussato could not be understood without reference to literary changes of a century or more before them.

From New York Times