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'Cortile' means 'courtyard,' so of course there is a courtyard...
If These Plates Could Talk Richard Snow 2011
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There was another restaurant my father took me to, the Cortile, which ran through a building between 43rd and 44th streets just west of Fifth Avenue.
If These Plates Could Talk Richard Snow 2011
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His solution is to sporadically cut away from said room to clips from Young's films, including hard-to-find works like Caught and even harder-to-find films like Alambrista! and Cortile Cascino.
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The writers who describe Lucretia's entrance into the city say that she dismounted from her horse at the steps of the marble court (a le scale del Cortile di Marmo).
Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day Ferdinand Gregorovius
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They besieged the Bagnacavallo _Cortile_; they wrote sonnets and madrigals, and sang them day in, day out.
Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett
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The cornice of the present choir is also formed of this very rare marble; while large fragments of the old cornice of the same material, which ran round the whole church, are preserved in the Belvedere Cortile of the Vatican.
Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan
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Belvedere Cortile in the Vatican is a portion of an ancient column of this marble, which is the most beautiful specimen in Rome; and the principal portal of the portico of St. Peter's is flanked by a pair of fluted Roman Ionic columns of Africano, which are the largest in the city.
Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan
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The Sistine Chapel to the extreme left adjoins the Cortile della Sentinella, and the Cortile del
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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Stanze di Raffaello and the Appartamento Borgia, encloses the Cortile del Papagallo on the north and south sides.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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The above-mentioned loggie form the western side of the Cortile di San Damaso; the northern side is also composed of loggie, behind which, on the second floor, is the Sala
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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