What is "ghibelline"

Usage examples of "ghibelline".

Considering their difference in age and status, it seems likely that this shared political affiliation brought Filippo and Donatello together in Pistoia, a city with strong Ghibelline sympathies now under a Guelf regime.

In 1248, a Guelf serving girl under Ghibelline torture near the piazza was saved from death, it was said, through the intercession of a female follower of St.

Pistoia, which was a Ghibelline city conquered by Florence, Prato was a longtime Florentine ally whose relations with the larger city were close and harmonious.

This class continued to influence Florence well into the Quattrocento, with the support of certain wealthy anti-Guelf families, and the fact that they were anti-Guelf was enough to cause suspicions of Ghibelline sympathies.

In Florence, Ghibelline meant German which meant Gothic and all that it implied.

Located about sixty kilometers from Florence, just to the north of Pisa, Lucca was a traditionally Ghibelline city that had supported Milan in the war, and on one level the attack was an attempt by Florence to strengthen her perimeter defenses by simultaneously occupying a strategic, walled city and ridding herself of a local enemy.

She looked, indeed, like one of those wonderful boys of the Italian Renaissance, whom you may still see at the National Gallery, whose beauty is no denial, but rather the stamp of their slender, supple strength, young painters and sculptors who held the palette for Leonardo, or wielded the chisel for Michelangelo, and anon threw both aside to take up sword for Guelf or Ghibelline in the narrow streets of Florence.

Tannhauser was therefore a Ghibelline, as was plainly the folk-poet who made him the hero of the ballad which tells of his adventure with Venus.

Beatrice passed along on her way to get a chunk of chestnut cake to defend herself with in case of a Ghibelline outbreak before she got to school, at the same old stand where they sell the same old cake to this day and it is just as light and good as it was then, too, and this is not flattery, far from it.

But he is the poorest ruler Florence has had since our disastrous Guelph and Ghibelline civil wars.

Here were the ancient Ghibelline Bardelli palace and the first of the Alberti palaces, with its columned courtyard and capitals by Giuliano da Sangallo.

Italy, when the Ghibelline and Guelph factions were in hottest contest.

I am a Montague or a Capulet, a Macdonald or a Campbell, a Guelph or a Ghibelline, a Roundhead or a Cavalier?

Guelph fashion, and the tower on the ramparts has the Ghibelline battlements of swallow-tail shape.

In the end, Dante was exiled not by his rival Ghibellines but due to an internal split among the Guelfs.