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

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

He’s become a docent of decay, the cicerone of Newtown Creek.

From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2012

Van Swieten was, as it were, the cicerone of the new comer, and attached young Beethoven to his person and to his house, where indeed the latter soon found himself at home.

From Life of Beethoven by Anton Schindler

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 genial little optimists that had been hopping about on the snow on the declivities had acted as our cicerones clear to the summit, and some of them remained there while we tarried.

From Birds of the Rockies by Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) Keyser

Some of the officers now assumed the part of cicerones, to show the distinguished strangers the bowels of the frigate, concerning which several of them showed a good deal of intelligent curiosity.

From White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War by Herman Melville

Nor are the professional local ciceroni much more to be trusted.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 by Various

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

Let all lovers of genuine relics look well to their money before they part with it to the ciceroni that swarm in the village of Waterloo.

From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 by Charles Mackay

The folly of ciceroni often cites this name as "Ridiculous."

From Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. Hare

The first thing that the ciceroni generally take you to see in Italy are the churches, and mine would not probably have spared me one, but I was more anxious to see the University.

From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Major W. E Frye