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Here's a piano nobile, which is a device used in the Renaissance.

Thom Mayne on architecture as connection 2005

Here's a piano nobile, which is a device used in the Renaissance.

Thom Mayne on architecture as connection 2005

Here's a piano nobile, which is a device used in the Renaissance.

Thom Mayne on architecture as connection 2005

The Tuscans, fine aristocratic nobles with ten centuries of lineage behind them, and splendid peasants with all their glorious traditions of feudal servitude under the "nobile," are, after all, like children, with a simplicity that is astounding, combined with a cunning that is amazing.

The Stretton Street Affair William Le Queux 1895

The FSS was, however, in luck and was housed in the piano nobile of a palace on the once elegant Riviera di Chiaia.

Rereading: Naples '44 by Norman Lewis 2011

Above the ground floor, its piano nobile offers even more seclusion in a series of large, high-ceilinged rooms Picasso adopted for living and working.

Picasso Is Lord of This Manor Michael FitzGerald 2011

Kabir un gran signore, nobile di animo e di modi, una grande e rispettosa educazione ed un ottimo attore, dalla fisicit al dash stesso prepotente ed elegante!

Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009

In homeopathy, it is classified as a nervine herb (calming to the system), in two forms: Matricaria recutita, commonly known as German chamomile, and Chamaemelum nobile, Roman chamomile (the kind most often used for cooking).

I Spice: Chamomile 2010

The corner sign identifies the planting as Chamomile, Chamaemelum nobile.

Sissinghurst Part Two « Fairegarden 2010

The evenings described by Castiglione in The Book of the Courtier took place in the Sala della Conversazione (fig. 6.26), located behind the two large windows at left, on the piano nobile.

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