Vicino

According to this somewhat fantastic story, one of the Orsini dukes, whose real name was Pier Francesco but who was known by the nickname Vicino, designed toward the end of the sixteenth century a garden of a sensationally eccentric kind, which exhibited a varied assortment of grotesque and horripilating figures, executed in the soft local tufa by a captive from the battle of Lepanto.

The Monsters of Bomarzo Wilson, Edmund 1972

In the middle of the 16th century, Prince Vicino Orsini created, in his estate at Bomarzo, a labyrinth of symbols, Il Parco dei Mostri di Bomarzo.

Archive 2008-08-01 The Nag 2008

After Vicino Orsini's death nobody cared any longer for this jewel of mannerist art.

Archive 2008-08-01 The Nag 2008

NOB HILL -- This was the view from one of the sidewalk tables in front of Il Vicino of the moon rising over the Sandia Mountains.

The Inheritance johnny_mango 2005

Have you ever had the "home brewed" root beer at Il Vicino?

Oil, Root Beer, & Leading a Life You Love johnny_mango 2005

Vicino says, Write something about yourself, then write the opposite.

Excerpt: The Society of Others by William Nicholson 2005

Feranio there are mosaics by Deodato Cosmos (1332); at Orvieto by two religious Ceco Vanni and Francesco; at Pisa (in 1321) by Vicino, who finished that commenced by Cimibue from the designs of Gaddo Gaddi.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

This has generally been attributed to Cimabue and the side figures to Vicino.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

Humans have a "deep, intrinsic attraction to primates," says San Diego Zoo animal care manager Greg Vicino, that goes beyond the mutual owning of opposable thumbs.

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Video: the jazz session at Vicino's on Monday nights.

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