Paduan
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Paduans
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He never completed his great study of the Paduan bronze sculptor Andrea Riccio, but his pioneering articles served as the basis for a major Riccio retrospective exhibition at the Frick Collection in 2008.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2011
Two of the tales are recounted in dialect, one in Bergamasco and another in Paduan.
From The Guardian ● May 14, 2010
Man tegna, the son of a carpenter, studied under the strict Paduan master, Francesco Squarcione.
From Time Magazine Archive
Withal he is of noble and ancient Venetian lineage, though he was born a Paduan.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
Renaissance chronicler Giorgio Vasari tells us in "Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects" that the sculptor was annoyed by all the roses adoring Paduans threw his way.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2015
The Paduans, even in the sixteenth century, firmly believed that they possessed not only the genuine bones of their founder, Antenor, but also those of the historian Livy.
From The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt
The spark of war spreading to the rival cities, the Paduans were soon worsted, and three hundred of their number were made prisoners.
From Venetian Life by William Dean Howells
He assaults the city one midnight, surprises the Milanese, is welcomed by the Paduans with the old shout, "Viva il Carro!" and at dawn is encamped in triumph upon the Prato.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. by Various
An alliance between Venice and Milan ended in the total defeat of the Paduans in 1388, and the temporary fall of the House of Carrara.
From Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta by W. Cope Devereux
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