Sentence examples for Italian monk from inspiring English sources
Fra Mauro, crater on the Moon that appears to be heavily eroded; it was named for a 15th-century Italian monk and mapmaker.
The next major source of information was the Micrologus, written in the early 11th century by the Italian monk and musical theorist Guido d'Arezzo.
The fascinating tale of the 19th-century Italian monk, a "notorious tomb robber," who gathered archaeological treasures in Egypt while crunching bones underfoot.
He is also the only pope to take the name Francis evoking the humility of St Francis of Assisi, a 12th century Italian monk.
Gratian, Latin Gratianus, (born 11th century, Carraria-Ficulle?, Tuscany [Italy] died before 1159, Bologna?), Italian monk who was the father of the study of canon law.
While in Cairo in the summer of 1815, awaiting an audience with Mohammed Ali Pasha, Turkish viceroy of Egypt, the Italian monk-turned-peddler-turned-hydrologist-turned-circus impresario Giovanni Belzoni paid a visit to the Great Pyramid and became so tightly wedged in one of its internal passages that his guides had to forcibly extract him.
It is not until near the end of the same century that Christianity returned in force to the east as 40 Italian monks, led by a man called Augustine, tried to convert Aethelbert, the King of Kent.
An example is Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium sive super ludo scacchorum ('Book of the customs of men and the duties of nobles or the Book of Chess'), written by an Italian Dominican monk Jacobus de Cessolis c. 1300.
The monastery was built in the 1950's, when no municipal supply was available, explained Father Hilary Conti, an Italian-born Benedictine monk who lives at Holy Face.
Frei Damião, original name Pio Gianotti, (born Nov. 5, 1898, Italy died May 31 , 1997 Recife, Braz)., Italian-born Brazilian Roman Catholic monk.
