penna

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His putting to flight the assassins in Ferrara gave him such a reputation for courage, that there went about in his honour a popular couplet   "Colla penna e colla spada   Nessun val quanto Torquato."

From Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2 by Tasso, Torquato

If there is any word in that passage which could be considered coextensive in meaning with the word "sewell," it would undoubtedly be "penna."

From Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 86, June 21, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by Various

A Noun is the name of a person, place, thing, or quality; as, Caesar, Caesar; Rōma, Rome; penna, feather; virtūs, courage.

From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)

"Are they so hugely interested in the performances of my unassuming penna?"

From Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. by Anstey, F.

He rarely abandons himself, without reserve, to the frolic puerilities so common with the sister Muse of Italy,   "Scritta così come la penna getta,   Per fuggir l'ozio, e non per cercar gloria."

From The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 2 by Prescott, William Hickling