cicerone

A surprising glimpse, a quarter-century into the millennium: The reassuring figure of the Anglican clergyman—enthusiast; amateur; generous of spirit, perhaps to a fault—acting cicerone among a dozen churches he’s identified as “buildings that made Christianity.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

Ms. Mion said she finds it reassuring to know that, when the time comes for Edoardo to join in the family business, he can rely on his father as a cicerone.

From New York Times ● Apr. 16, 2022

A certified cicerone, co-owner Chris Elford also helped start the great beer joint Proletariat in New York’s East Village.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2016

So I called on a friend I will call Cicero to be my cicerone.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 15, 2016

I always detested a cicerone; his bowing, fawning, and prating annoyed me; and all through Italy, with my map and guide-book under my arm, I was in the habit of rambling about alone.

From Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, 7th ed. Vol. 2 of 2 by Stephens, John Lloyd

For newcomers to Holy Mountain, its lineup is a good primer on what many cicerones consider to be one of the best breweries in the Northwest, if not the entire West Coast.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 5, 2023

Many, many times I've wondered what it would be like to go A group of foreign correspondents with Nazi cicerones last week completed a 2,500-mile tour of occupied Ukraine.

From Time Magazine Archive

Among memorable cicerones in Italy was one whom we saw at Pisa, where we stopped on our way from Leghorn after our accident in the Maremma, and spent an hour in viewing the Quattro Fabbriche.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 by Various

There are a score of priests in charge, quite ready to act as cicerones to visitors.

From The Pearl of India by Ballou, Maturin Murray

The cicerones looked at each other in amazement; the young soldier's questions startled them.

From Monte-Cristo's Daughter by Flagg, Edmund

In almost all these galleries, museums, and gardens the stranger is permitted to wander about and linger as he pleases, entirely unmolested by officious servants and ignorant ciceroni.

From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.

My sons, who were our stewards and ciceroni, had ordered a basket of provisions to be brought by the carriage, that we might dine au frais near the monuments, the objects of our visit.

From Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith by Beste, Henry Digby

On the shafts are seated two boys, picked up on the road from Torre del Greco or Pouzzoles, probably supernumerary ciceroni of the antiquities of Herculaneum and Pompeii.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 by Various

I have a traveller's dislike to officious ciceroni, and did not-altogether like the garb of the applicant.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 549 (Supplementary number) by Various

But in walking about the museum with Mr. Bradshaw, he was the most brilliant of ciceroni.

From The Emancipated by Gissing, George