When daylight broke I opened the letter, which contained a passport in my name, an order for five hundred scudi on a Naples bank, and the words "Bernardo is out of danger, but do not return to Rome for some months.
The occupant of the carriage, a gentleman of the Borghese family, had escaped with a shaking, and sent a servant in rich livery with a purse containing twentyscudi for the motherless child.
The Grand Duke finally gave him a pension of 1,000 scudi at Florence.
For all these Fra Mariano paid only ten scudi each, and Andrea, feeling the remuneration not equal to the merit of the work, would have left off here, but the Frate held him to his bond.
Like all his other frescoes of this church, Andrea only gained ten scudi for this masterpiece.
What a mine of gold the French court must have seemed to him after working for years at large frescoes for ten scudi each!
Onofrio, and he left to the convent his crucifix and fifty scudi for alms, that so many masses might be said for his soul, in the manner that is read in the book of legacies in our archives.
Throwing themselves upon their knees, they offered a nosegay and twenty scudi with the request that this might be employed to ornament the balcony in which the Roman Senate sate in the Piazza del Popolo.
Fontana advanced a thousand scudi for the completion of the work, and had the delicacy never to allow the cardinal to imagine that he was indebted to him.
Even until late years an especial guardian has been appointed to take care of it, with an annual stipend of ten scudi a year, and the title of "Il custode del Cavallo.
I remember a necklace in the Campana museum, which, in a large number of unmistakable Scarabæi, had one for which I would not have paid twoscudi on the Piazza Navona, so like the modern imitations did it look.
Well, I'll tell you how it is: I bought the thing of the man who made it, and paid him three scudi for it.
That he was much favored in Naples is attested by the fact that he was given a commission to design or to represent all places and plants in the kingdom, and to receive for the same "ten scudi per month.
These vessels were worth as much as five, six, and even ten thousand scudi each; but they were not permitted to demand for them more then one Giulio (about a half Paolo).
He called him the Apelles of his time, and paid him one thousandscudi in gold for each portrait.
The rector Arringhieri paid 4090 scudi for the work as a matter of compromise on the valuing of Fra Giovanni da Verona.
The contract was between the abbot and Fra Damiano's brother, Maestro Stefano di Antoniuolo de' Zambelli da Bergamo, and was for the whole choir at 30 scudi for each seat, wood being provided.
Look here, my friend, five thousand scudiis a great deal of money.
If he stays away he will be five thousand scudi in, and be his own master besides.
He was to draw three thousand scudi on his own account, and two thousand on account of the American, and come back with this sum, on the receipt of which the three would be released.
And with the consent of the said Abate Paolo she was placed in the home of the said Comparini under security of 300 scudi to keep it as a secure prison.
Still further, I give her the power to leave by will 200 scudi more of my estate.
And then, when he had obtained the permission of his Cardinal, he sold his furniture and books, and when he had made them pay over the 47 scudi which had been found upon Pompilia at Castelnuovo, he left Rome.
For this reason, the Governor of Rome had constrained him to consent that she should keep her own home as a prison, under security of 300 scudi to present herself at every demand of the Tribunal.
On them were found, still stained with blood, those daggers with which they had done the murders, and upon Franceschini were found 150 scudi in money.
This led to my taking his portrait; and when he saw the wax model for the bust, he sent me fifty golden scudi by a notary in his employ, named Ser Giuliano Paccalli.
I would give one hundred scudi in gold for a copy of the New Testament.
If you can get her into your lunatic asylum, the quicker the better; and the five thousand scudi will come in good time, for I am thinking of building me a larger ship on my return home.
I had also, in my purse, 100 scudi in gold, which I had saved from my pin money.
Yet they in justice are entitled to good treatment, for thousands of scudi (dollars) are sent as donations to the convents for the support of these orphans, every year, by benevolent individuals.
Now, you will allow, Monsignore, a peasant must be badly off indeed when a bounty of twenty scudi tempts him to put on a uniform which is universally despised?
They paid a perpetual annuity of 450 scudito the heirs of a renegade who had abused them.
Those who survive ten days of a harvest more destructive than many a battle, return to their native village with some four or five scudi in their pockets.
Supposing, for instance, the Government wants half a million of scudi for some mysterious purpose, nothing is easier than to bring their direct contributions in as having paid half a million less than they really have.
He has exempted them from the municipal kick and the 800 scudi which it cost them.
A hundred and twenty scudi a year is not an unpleasant bed to lie upon after a term of military service.
Twenty scudi is fair enough; still I'm afraid even at one hundred and seven francs a head you won't get picked men.
What good is it to us to have fourteen or fifteen thousand men on foot, and to spend some millions of scudi annually, if after such efforts and sacrifices, foreign protection is now more necessary to us than it was the first day?
These eight thousand scudi are distributed among a thousand or fifteen hundred poor creatures who are sadly in want of them.
And, in order that these deputies may give undivided attention to their official duties, they shall each receive from the treasury 300 scudi a year.
In consideration of their poverty, he charged but a hundred golden scudi for the work, to which they gratefully added as many florins.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scudi" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
