Borghese

[ bawr-ge-ze; English bawr-gey-zee, -zey ]

noun

1. a member of a noble Italian family, originally from Siena, that was important in Italian politics and society from the 16th to the early 19th century.

Borghese

/ borˈɡeze /

noun

1. a noble Italian family whose members were influential in Italian art and politics from the 16th to the 19th century

Example Sentences

As Tom views Caravaggio’s “David With the Head of Goliath” at the Galleria Borghese in Rome, a docent explains how the painter has linked “the killer and his victim by portraying David as compassionate, even loving” and, most applicable to Tom’s situation, using himself as the model for both.

From Los Angeles Times

Essentially a super-deluxe annex to the already super-deluxe Hotel Vilòn across a private garden, the Palazzo Vilòn sits at the tip of the long harpsichord-shaped Palazzo Borghese that curves between the Tiber River and the Via del Corso.

From New York Times

The Islamic presence in Italy dates to the eighth century, but it wasn’t until 1995 that the officially recognized Great Mosque of Rome opened in Parioli, a neighborhood that’s a short hop by taxi from the Borghese Gallery.

From New York Times

In Rome, he began a lifelong fascination with the marble statue “Sleeping Hermaphroditus” at the Borghese Gallery.

From Washington Post

That was the trio's thinking in "I Know Who Did It," the second season finale Hoffman co-wrote with Robb Turosky and Matteo Borghese.

From Salon