Old coin of Italy

Usage examples of scudo.

Had the willingness to invest solely in houses and land, the only true source of wealth to a Tuscan, kept the Buonarroti from ever wasting a scudo on art?

Do you know what that means to a man who has not earned a scudo for four years?

After twenty-seven years of worry, and eight major sculptures for which he was not to receive one scudo of wage, he would be freed from his self-imposed hell.

I was made, in a homely way, extremely comfortable at the Scudo di Francia, kept by Signor Bonaudo and his wife.

Among these latter were Delacroix, Vernet, Eugene Giraud, Pasdeloup, Scudo, Heugel, and Jules Levy.

The apartment, a decent first floor and two bedchambers on the second, was small but well furnished, and cost no more than a scudo per day.

He drew the mother and child in every position he found, seeing the true relation between them through his charcoal and paper, and then, for a few scudi, persuaded the women to move, change, shift themselves and the child to give him more angles of approach, to search for.

I shall tell him that I have a modest commission, and that they are paying for the marble plus a few scudi a month while I work.

Sigismondo, barely able to read and write, was earning a few scudi as a hired soldier for Florence in its present hostilities against Pisa.

According to this negro-minstrel style of youth, he had been seized from behind, held, robbed of watch and elegant gold chain, red coral shirt-studs, onyx sleeve-buttons, and a porte-monnaie containing fifty scudi, etc.

Sapendo che non avrebbe avuto il tempo di levare lo scudo per proteggersi, Eragon urlò.

Eragon imprecò, e da Saphira si tuffò sull'Urgali, schiacciandogli il muso con lo scudo.

Uomini massacrati giacevano sopra le donne che avevano cercato di proteggere, le madri tenevano ancora stretti i figli, e gli amanti che avevano tentato di fare da scudo l'uno all'altra riposavano in un gelido abbraccio di morte.