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  • Ordine et officij de casa de lo illustrissimo signor duca de Urbino.

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • Merosro, et Canadam, ac Nouam Franciam attinet, ea in meis tabulis desumpta sum ex quadam Tabula marina, qu� � quodam sacerdote ex earum ditionum Naucleri peritissimi Galli descriptione excerpta fuit, et illustrissimo Principi Georgio ab Austria episcopo

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • The polite style in addressing a stranger is in the third person, and such titles as Your Excellency, Your Lordship, and Your Worship, sometimes enlarged with the adjective _illustrissimo_

    Spanish Life in Town and Country L. Higgin

  • The Coronel accompanied me down river for about forty-eight hours and then, reaching the northern extremity of his estate, he bade me a fond good-bye with the words: "_Sempre, illustrissimo Senhor, minha casa e a suas ordenes_," "My house, most illustrious Sir, is always at your disposal."

    In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians Algot Lange

  • It is curious enough that his acquaintance with the Italian literati should have been the means of preserving one of their own compositions, the “Tina” of Antonio Malatesti, a series of fifty sonnets on a mistress, sent to him in manuscript by the author, with a dedication to the illustrissimo signore et padrone osservatissimo.

    Life of John Milton Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906 1890

  • "If one could be sure that the illustrissimo eccellenza was indeed happy, that would be a good thing," he answered, dubiously.

    Vendetta: a story of one forgotten Marie Corelli 1889

  • It is curious enough that his acquaintance with the Italian literati should have been the means of preserving one of their own compositions, the "Tina" of Antonio Malatesti, a series of fifty sonnets on a mistress, sent to him in manuscript by the author, with a dedication to the _illustrissimo signore et padrone osservatissimo_.

    Life of John Milton Richard Garnett 1870

  • But the _illustrissimo_ merely opened his eyes and surveyed the gentleman in silence, much as a cuttlefish might have done if similarly addressed.

    Manasseh A Romance of Transylvania M��r J��kai 1864

  • The _other_ ancient and illustrious signor, who raised the devil in Beppo's cottage last year, and carried off the bride, was her father; but this illustrissimo is

    The Lost Lady of Lone Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth 1859

  • I had the honour and the happiness of singing with him in the _opera dell 'illustrissimo maestro_ Rossini -- in Otello!

    The Torrents of Spring Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850

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