It was customary for Roman gentlemen to hire bravi for the defence of their palaces when any extraordinary disturbance was expected, as, for example, upon the vacation of the Papal Chair.
However, all those bravi ran up to the corpse and took no action against me; so I went back alone through Strada Giulia, considering how best to put myself in safety.
This is Lorenzino de Medici, the murderer of Alessandro, who was himself assassinated by two Tuscan braviin 1548.
Two of the principals and fifteen bravi were told off to each victim: rams and crowbars were prepared to force the doors, if needful.
Like this were the bravi who hunted Lorenzaccio to death at Venice.
Moreover, every man of worth was down-trodden by bravi whom the nobles favoured; nor could a citizen call his property his own.
He here collected his bravi together, and rode on to Michelotti's palace on Monte Sole.
But people were not afraid of them; they had neither wealth to keep bravi with, nor influence to support and further their pretensions.
With this news the Cardinal ordered his bravi to horse, and the monks girded up their gowns for the march.
Stradella would lose no time, and would certainly accept Gambardella's assistance in the chase; and in due time husband and wife would reach Venice separately and fall into the respective traps the Bravihad ready for them.
The Bravi had turned their chairs to listen, for he had gone to the window.
I know this Pignaver,' he said in conclusion, 'and I know positively that he has engaged two Bravi to follow the pair and murder them.
Your two friends are well-known Bravi and are at present lodging at the Orso inn, where you were, and your serving-woman is Filippina Landi, who escaped from a convent in Lombardy with a young Venetian and was abandoned by him.
The Bravi preferred to ride post, sending their luggage on with their servant, six or seven hours in advance of them.
A thousand crowns in gold ducats,' she said, 'which your Eminence's nephew paid two Bravi for the privilege of giving me this scratch.
After leaving the Bravi who had robbed her, she threaded the narrow ways northwards with a quick step till she came to a point near to the Fondaco dei Turchi on the Grand Canal.
Behind them the Bravi walked in silence, their hands on the hilts of their rapiers and their eyes fixed on the happy pair, each absorbed in his own reflections.
Trombin's blade was out almost as soon as his companion's, and the two Bravi faced the watch side by side.
He went in by a more convenient entrance than the two Bravi had chosen for reasons of their own, but he found Markos where they had found him, still busy with his accounts in the bright little vestibule.
And so he had resolved and disposed that I should be removed, and to accomplish this he had left a line of bravi along the road I was to pass.
For here at the Etoile he had that evening overheard Saint-Eustache in conversation with those two bravi below stairs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bravi" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
