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 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

It was a January night and very dark, and favorable for the schemes of our cicerones.

From My Recollections by Jules Massenet

The elephant had gone to take his place in the triumphal entry when Emmy Lou and her four cicerones, in their progress through the animal tent before the program, reached his roped-in inclosure.

From Emmy Lou's Road to Grace Being a Little Pilgrim's Progress by George Madden Martin

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

We were so enchanted by what we heard about Hyderabad, that we resolved to start thither the very next morning, when our ciceroni and companions destroyed all our plans by a single word.

From From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

Such places are like well-frequented inns, where any body and every body is at home, and where every body influences the manners for the time being—there will be found cafés, carriages, and ciceroni.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 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

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