Guelf

Suffice it to say that through all the vicissitudes of that stormy period the name Guelf became more and more associated with republican freedom in Florence.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866

Suffice it to say that through all the vicissitudes of that stormy period the name Guelf became more and more associated with republican freedom in Florence.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series John Addington Symonds 1866

In this way Italy came to be divided into the two world-famous factions known as Guelf and Ghibelline.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866

In this way Italy came to be divided into the two world-famous factions known as Guelf and Ghibelline.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series John Addington Symonds 1866

Pope and emperor no longer warred each other, but the cries of "Guelf" and "Ghibelline" had not died out.

A Text-Book of the History of Painting John Charles Van Dyke 1894

In late medieval Italy, gambling on games of chess, dice, and cards offered diversion for soldiers during frequent and lengthy sieges in the wars between the Guelf and Ghibelline.

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

Yet out of all the details of rivalry between Guelf and Ghibelline, between French and German, between Angevin and Byzantine, there emerges an image as crystalline as a painting by Van Eyck.

The Sicilian Vespers, by Sir Steven Runciman 2008

Dante would gladly have stabbed a Guelf had he met him in exile.

The Imaginary Mistress 2007

Dante would gladly have stabbed a Guelf had he met him in exile.

The Imaginary Mistress 2007

With a monkey in the background, how can even a Hapsburg or a Guelf put on airs of superiority?

Defending Darwin 2005