The name of Polenta was derived from a castle so called in the neighbourhood of Brittonoro.
Guido Novello of Polenta obtains the sovereignty of Ravenna.
A favorite artifice is to approach Charity with a slice of polenta in one hand, and, with the other extended, implore a soldo to buy cheese to eat with the polenta.
But they now flourish on a bequest left by a pious lady for their maintenance, and on the largess of grain and polenta constantly bestowed by strangers.
A noble polenta was placed upon the board, flanked by two large dishes of pork chops.
Next day, as I was going to pay my court to the Pope, I saw Momolo in the first ante-chamber, and I took care to remind him of the polenta for the evening.
The polenta was excellent, the chops delicious, and the ham perfect, and in less than an hour the board was as bare as if there had been nothing on it; but the Orvieto kept the company in good spirts.
I sent him off directly to His Holiness's 'scopatore maggiore' to warn him that I was coming to take polenta with him, and all he need do was to get a good supper for twelve.
The large table was covered with a clean cloth, and soon after they brought in two huge dishes of polenta and an enormous pan full of chops.
The ingredients for a good polenta are one pound of corn meal, preferably granulous, one quart and a half of water, salted in proportion, one piece of butter, one cup and a half of milk.
When the sausages are cooked, pour the polenta hot in a dish and place the sausages and the gravy in a cavity practised in the middle.
Put the polenta (or cornmeal mush) in a fireproof receptacle, season with grated cheese, the crushed sausages and a piece of butter.
The Roman poor have much the same contempt for inferior bread that we meet with in the same class at home, none eat 'seconds' who can possibly avoid it; but the pagnotto di polenta is only eaten by the poorest peasants.
An old maid-servant filled these again with polenta out of the big kettle, and taking her spoon sat down and joined the others.
Prepare a good polenta as above, put it in layers in a fireproof dish, and add by degrees one and a half ounces of melted butter, two cooked mushrooms cut up, and two tablespoonsful of grated cheese.
The poorer people of Venice have polenta and boiled fish for dinner nearly every day.
Molly and May liked the polenta and boiled fish very much.
Boys and girls are left seasoning their polenta with a slice of zucca, while the mothers of a score of families go pattering up yonder courtyard with the material for their husbands' supper in their handkerchiefs.
The polentais turned out upon a wooden platter, and cut with a string called lassa.
Giovita, of the palace, Engaged (but there 's no trusting him) to slice me 65 Polenta with a knife that had cut up An ortolan.
Being dismissed from his post, with a meagre pension, he suddenly gave up all the luxuries of life, and took no food but polenta without salt.
Close to the entrance door is a slab of red Verona marble dated 1396, which is the tomb of Ostasio da Polenta who was a Tertiary of the Franciscan Order, and was therefore buried in the habit of the friars.
The last two figures upon the right here are said to be portraits of Giotto and Guido da Polenta by those who attribute these works to the Florentine master.
With the pitiful story of Francesca da Polenta we have seen how he dealt and how he spoke of Guido Vecchio.
Being in Ravenna during the time that Messer Bernardino of Polenta held the lordship, it chanced that this Messer Antonio, who was a very great gambler, had been gambling one day and had lost nearly all he possessed.
To secure their alliance Polenta married his daughter Francesca to Malatesta's elder son Giovanni; but she had already learned to love, or she soon came to love, his brother Paolo il Bella.
Footnote 2: Cervia, the least secure of the Polenta possessions.
Giovita, of the palace, Engaged (but there's no trusting him) to slice me Polenta with a knife that had cut up An ortolan.
Polenta Fritters, Fried Pumpkin, Fried Squash, and Parsnips may also be added or substituted if desired.
Then cut the polenta in slices as in preceding receipt and add the chopped sausages with their sauce and grated cheese, in layers as before.
Place these slices on a hot platter in a layer; pour over them a good meat gravy and grated cheese; then put on another layer of the polenta, and add more gravy and cheese, and so on, until your polenta is used up.
All the Battery had discovered the polenta at the porter's lodge and our men crowded the kitchen at all hours of the day.
We ate hotpolenta and drank wonderful coffee, having established our Battery Mess in the porter's lodge at the entrance to the Villa Lebreton, and persuaded the porter's wife to cook for us.
The peasants somewhat rarely use animal food--this is most largely used in Sardinia and least in Sicily--bread and polenta or macaroni and vegetables being the staple diet.
At Ravenna we find thePolenta family, at Rimini the Malatestas, at Parma the Rossi, at Piacenza the Scotti, at Faenza the Manfredi.
They dined off a dish of polenta or fried fish, which a valet brought from a tavern near by.
He offered no further remarks; he plied his spoon upon the polenta slowly, and yet more slowly.
He looked at the steaming bowl of polenta and the coffee-pot which Luigi had set upon the table.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "polenta" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
