“Gaucho pants, or, as Boatswain called them, three-quarter palazzo pants, are also selling well, she said.”

“Apparently, he was miffed that his party, at a fabulous palazzo, clashed with a dinner held in honour of Lucian Freud.”

“Externally it resembles a cross between an Italian palazzo and a baronial hunting lodge tacked on to a far older watchtower.”

“Firedogs were made to occupy the tall and wide fireplaces in the principal rooms of Venetian palazzi.”

“The form of the building recalls ancient Venetian palazzi, but it is treated in a more abstract fashion, with an emphasis on the flatness of the external surface.”

“All the towns saw considerable building activity through the 18th century, notably of churches, large public buildings, and palazzi.”

“Other palazzos too have marvellous things to offer but the Palazzo Fortuny is said to be the best of the lot.”

“Italy is a renovator's dream, with hundreds of abandoned farmhouses and crumbling palazzos ripe for restoration.”

“You deliver letters and hurry around cities with a loping stride, climbing up the façades of palazzos and churches when the mood moves you.”