The story goes that as a boy, he saw a local nobleman set his dog on a peasant woman who was knocked to the ground and battered. |
He entered with the trained dignity of a nobleman and met the duke's steely gaze. |
In 1591 Bruno returned to Italy after being invited by the Venetian nobleman Zuane Mocenigo to educate the aristocrat in mnemonics. |
It is another anachronism to think that the author of his plays must have been a nobleman. |
Maggie takes up with and marries Prince Amerigo, an impecunious Italian nobleman with a wreck of a castle in his homeland. |
His father had inherited the Acton family baronetcy and his mother was the heiress of a German nobleman, the Duke of Dalberg. |