Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A member of the papal and popular party of Italy in the middle ages, opposed to the Ghibellines, the imperial and aristocratic party.
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- noun Alternative form of
Guelph .
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Examples
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Suffice it to say that through all the vicissitudes of that stormy period the name Guelf became more and more associated with republican freedom in Florence.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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Suffice it to say that through all the vicissitudes of that stormy period the name Guelf became more and more associated with republican freedom in Florence.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series John Addington Symonds 1866
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In this way Italy came to be divided into the two world-famous factions known as Guelf and Ghibelline.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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In this way Italy came to be divided into the two world-famous factions known as Guelf and Ghibelline.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series John Addington Symonds 1866
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Pope and emperor no longer warred each other, but the cries of "Guelf" and "Ghibelline" had not died out.
A Text-Book of the History of Painting John Charles Van Dyke 1894
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In late medieval Italy, gambling on games of chess, dice, and cards offered diversion for soldiers during frequent and lengthy sieges in the wars between the Guelf and Ghibelline.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Yet out of all the details of rivalry between Guelf and Ghibelline, between French and German, between Angevin and Byzantine, there emerges an image as crystalline as a painting by Van Eyck.
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Dante would gladly have stabbed a Guelf had he met him in exile.
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Dante would gladly have stabbed a Guelf had he met him in exile.
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With a monkey in the background, how can even a Hapsburg or a Guelf put on airs of superiority?
Defending Darwin 2005
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