| Our favourite restaurant there was Archimede, whose vigilant padrone and busy staff put on a bustling show like something out of the commedia dell'arte. |
| Not long ago people like Renato and Theresa worked for a padrone as serfs, for no pay. |
| The padrone bore it proudly down between the mirrors and the windows. |
| Why had she not told the padrone she wished to be quite alone? |
| One of these is Giuliano Binanti, the padrone of the Giuliano group of restaurants in Edinburgh, who each autumn acts as my mushroom mentor. |
| The situation changed dramatically in July at the ceremony to formally turn over Palazzo Grassi to its new padrone. |
