conoscente

Example Sentences

• "I passed two Mornings in looking at the pictures of Sasso Ferrato and Andrea Mantegna, Names which I used to know only in Books: the Works of Guido Reni as the Italians always call him however, give one the real, & true, & unaffected Delight which that Art can afford—and as Goldsmith used to say the way to set up for a Conoscente was to talk a great deal about Pietro Perugino, I assure you that in that Merit I have already made many advances."
• "Upon asking how he had been taught the art of a conoscente so very suddenly, he assured me that nothing was more easy."
• "The conoscenti of the island have been greatly perplexed respecting a ruin recently discovered a few feet under ground: […]"
• "The first representation of the long-expected ballet of M. Blache, “Les Filets de Vulcain,” has been again put off. It seems to be looked forward to with as much anxiety by the conoscenti of Paris, as the splendid ballet of “La Naissance de Venus” was by those of London."
• "You affect to be a conoscente in friendship; what an amazing difference it makes, do you not think so, in one man’s feelings towards another, when, other things being equal, he can like his faults, and looks on some degree of them, or at least the dispositions from which they spring, as necessary to make up the simple object of his love?"
• "We have no hesitation in saying that the equals of these superb views and compositions have never been displayed to the conoscenti of our new hemisphere; […]"