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

While the cicerone held forth, some merely wondered with foolish faces, some admired, some looked intelligent, and asked various questions, which were readily answered—all seemed pleased.

From Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. I (of 3) by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson

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

The most discreet of cicerones is an intruder when we open our old favourite, and, without further magic, retire into that delicious nook of eighteenth-century society.

From Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) by Sir Leslie Stephen

M. Morrel turned to the cicerones, who were waiting in silent bewilderment.

From Monte-Cristo's Daughter by Edmund Flagg

He was the most discreet and profitable of cicerones, with a real talent for making himself useful to nice people.

From Miss Bretherton by Mrs. Humphry Ward

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

The ciceroni and books mention twelve other visitations, several of which are known only by name.

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

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

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