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

At last one of the cicerones managed to explain that they had seen the maniac!

From Monte-Cristo's Daughter by Edmund Flagg

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

Our cicerones treated us mercifully, but I believe some greenhorns are not so fortunate.

From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers

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

From The Emancipated by George Gissing

Those useful ciceroni in Venice, the Signori Carlo and Sarri, seem to have had Byron's description in mind.

From A Wanderer in Venice by Harry Morley

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 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

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