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

He brushed down his sharp checked blazer and entered, greeting Naomi Hample, an Argosy owner and autograph cicerone.

From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2019

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 walked around the cottage, inside and out; listened attentively, without understanding a word he said, to the garrulous Russian cicerone, and sat down on the step of the front piazza.

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

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

The general impression of Drs. Hirschfeld and Weil, when I was at Olympia, was against the accuracy of Pausanias, whom they considered to have blindly set down whatever the local cicerones told him.

From Rambles and Studies in Greece by J. P. Mahaffy

Nor must the help of one of the cathedral cicerones be overlooked, in spite of his desire to remain anonymous; for his knowledge of the building served to correct several mistakes in the first edition.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum by Gleeson White

A visit to the Studio Powers—or Pousse, as the ciceroni and valets-de-place called it—was an obligatory part of the tourist's regular work in "doing" Florence.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875 by Various

How the Continental ciceroni must hate him, whoever he is!

From Little Travels and Roadside Sketches by William Makepeace Thackeray

Till midnight we sat chatting with the different ciceroni who came up to offer their services.

From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

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

From The Emancipated by George Gissing

We drove to the Lateran: I had frequently visited this noble Basilica before, but on the present occasion we were to go over it in form, with the usual torments of laquais and ciceroni.

From The Diary of an Ennuyée by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson