Crossword clues for ferrara
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ferrara \Fer*ra"ra\, n. A sword bearing the mark of one of the Ferrara family of Italy. These swords were highly esteemed in England and Scotland in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Wikipedia
Ferrara is a city and comune in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, capital city of the Province of Ferrara. It is situated north-northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream of the Po River, located north. The town has broad streets and numerous palaces dating from the 14th and 15th centuries, when it hosted the court of the House of Este. For its beauty and cultural importance it has been qualified by UNESCO as World Heritage Site. Modern times have brought a renewal of industrial activity. Ferrara is on the main rail line from Bologna to Padua and Venice, and has branches to Ravenna, Poggio Rusco (for Suzzara) and Codigoro.
Ferrara is a city in Italy.
Ferrara may also refer to:
- Ferrara (surname)
- Province of Ferrara, a province in Italy
- 23 Infantry Division Ferrara, an Italian infantry division of World War II
- Ferrara Fire Apparatus, an American manufacturer of emergency services equipment
- Ferrara Bakery and Cafe, a New York City restaurant
- Ferrara Candy Company, a Chicago-based candy company
Ferrara is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Abel Ferrara (born 1951), American film director
- Adam Ferrara (born 1966), American actor and comedian
- America Ferrera (born 1984), American actor
- Ciro Ferrara (born 1967), Italian international footballer
- Donna Ferrara (born 1959), New York politician
- Ed Ferrara (born 1966), American former professional wrestling booker
- Franco Ferrara (1911–1985), Italian conductor
- Jackie Ferrara (born 1929), American sculptor
- Jerry Ferrara (born 1979), American actor
- Jon V. Ferrara (born 1960), American entrepreneur
- Paul Ferrara (born 1939), American photographer
- Paul B. Ferrara (1942–2011), American DNA scientist
- Peter Ferrara (born 1955), American lawyer and activist
- Rosina Ferrara (1861–1934), model to 19th-century American and British painters, muse of American expatriate artist John Singer Sargent
- Theresa Ferrara (1951–1979), criminal, associate to the Lucchese-Family
Usage examples of "ferrara".
The group had missed the bridge at Ferrara again for the seventh straight day with the bombsight that could put bombs into a pickle barrel at forty thousand feet, and one whole week had already passed since Colonel Cathcart had volunteered to have his men destroy the bridge in twenty-four hours.
Ferrara, is on leave in Italy, and the Mission is now represented by Captain Campini, who lives at Fez with his family.
Ferrara, the kind where the cost of one pair of boots would outfit a canaler for years.
In the intervals of space left free between Naples, Milan, Florence, and Venice, petty tyrants had arisen who exercised an absolute sovereignty over their territories: thus the Colonnas were at Ostia and at Nettuna, the Montefeltri at Urbino, the Manfredi at Faenza, the Bentivogli at Bologna, the Malatesta family at Rimini, the Vitelli at Citta di Castello, the Baglioni at Perugia, the Orsini at Vicovaro, and the princes of Este at Ferrara.
Bologna, Spezia and Ferrara, we can get those targets with no trouble at all.
But as the case was urgent, he proposed to Caesar that he should leave Rome, embark at Ostia, and cross over to Spezia, where Michelotto was to meet him at the head of 100 men-at-arms and 100 light horse, the only remnant of his magnificent army, thence by land to Ferrara, and from Ferrara to Imala, where, once arrived, he could utter his war-cry so loud that it would be heard through the length and breadth of Romagna.
We started early in the morning, travelled through Ferrara and Bologna, and reached Cesena, where we put up at the posting-house.
In 1976 Daniel Freedman, Sergio Ferrara, and Peter Van Nieuwenhuizen, all then of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, discovered that the most promising were those involving supersymmetry, since the tendency of bosons and fermions to give cancelling quantum fluctuations helps to calm the violent microscopic frenzy.
The King of France, the Duke of Ferrara, and the republic of Florence were to be the guarantors of this treaty.
The scheme was for me to elope with him during holy week, and to run away to Ferrara, where he had an uncle who would have given us a kind welcome, and would soon have brought his father to forgive him and to insure our happiness for life.
CHAPTER V I Stop at Ferrara, Where I Have a Comic Adventure--My Arrival in Paris Precisely at twelve o'clock the peotta landed me at Ponte di Lago Oscuro, and I immediately took a post-chaise to reach Ferrara in time for dinner.
Ezelin, in the meantime, had subdued the whole of the Trevisian March, but could not prevail against Ferrara, which was defended by Azone da Este and the forces which the pope had in Lombardy.
If Ferrara survived the gathering condottieri and internal factions, well, then Marco would be rich and powerful.
By the time he finally lowered the eyepieces, Greg Ferrara and the leaders of his special artillery unit were gathered around him on the redoubt.
It must be their plan to arm themselves, and engage the assistance of the marquis of Ferrara, that they might not be destitute of troops.