How To Use mantua In A Sentence
- When giving a guest the map of Mantua, why not indicate with a cross where the restaurant you've booked for him is located?
- Mrs. Rich, the favourite mantuamaker of those days, within whose power it lay to transform provincial newcomers, often already over-stocked with ill-made costumes and absurdly trimmed bonnets, into women of fashion! A belle of the fifties : memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-66,
- Patrick came home with the Secretary: I am more plagued with Patrick and my portmantua than with myself. The Journal to Stella
- Guastalla to Mantua, but sold the marquessate of Casale to France The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
- He heard Æsop say, dryly, "Some men of Italy are fools," and might perchance have flamed again, to his misluck, but that Staupitz, breathing thickly in his ear, whispered: "Idiot, he mocks a Mantuan. The Duke's Motto A Melodrama
- 'I now exulted in our prospect of success in my deliverance: I grew more cheerful, my uncle was tender and affectionate; I bore his caresses without any repulses, but left the room soon as possible I employed myself in packing up a few necessaries in a small portmantua, with what little valuables I had, and was tolerably supplied with money, as I thought, knowing little of the expences of a journey. The Castle of Wolfenbach
- Set in the 15th century court of the Duke of Mantua, the opera offers the cast and crew an opportunity to go the full hog with the lavish costumes of the period.
- Piero del Tovaglia, a Florentine silk merchant, acted from 1469 onward as intermediary in the negotiations regarding the project between Florence and Mantua, legally becoming Lodovico Gonzaga's procurator in Florence in August 1470.
- Tiziano Vecellio's Portrait of Isabella d'Este, Marchioness of Mantua 1534 - 1536 is a technical tour de force that exhibits what this great master, who was known as Titian, can do to paint objects that have totally unrelated surfaces and qualities. Terence Clarke: Masters of Venice, at The de Young Museum, San Francisco
- She was buried in Mantua in the habit of a Franciscan tertiary, with the cord and the scapular, as the Modenese chronicler Lancellotti reports.
