Looking for sentences and phrases with the word Ghibelline? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
The Italians fought endless civic wars under the banner of Guelph or Ghibelline, Pope or Empire, but they were little more than pretexts for strife.
Both the Guelph and the Ghibelline factions worked together to bring about the Ambrosian Republic in Milan.
Examples from Classical Literature
He schemed all this with the aid of a Guelph that dwelt in Arezzo as a red-hot Ghibelline.
This infuriated the others, and the town was split into Guelph and Ghibelline.
For myself, if we had a Guelphic order, I should choose to remain a Ghibelline.
You have heard the tidings which have brought joy to every Ghibelline heart.
Rome is as Ghibelline at this hour as if the Pope had lived forever at Viterbo!
The town was fairly torn up with these nursery Guelph and Ghibelline wars.
Farinata was a Ghibelline, leader of the Florentines in the victory at Montaperti.
He had resolved to reconcile the Guelf and Ghibelline factions.
But this epoch of Ghibelline prepotency in Tuscany was brief.
Castruccio, on the other hand, is exiled with his Ghibelline family from his homeland as a child, and schooled in the arts of war and political intrigue.
