The vast superb palace of the prince bishops, which was now to house a whole troop of sovereigns, imperial, royal, grand ducal and ducal, swelled aloft in superb amplitude; but it did not realize their historic pride so effectively as this exquisite work of the court Ironsmith.
"Their Silver Wedding Journey"
William Dean Howells
The painter Piero di Cosimo, for example, is here, straight from Vasari; so also are Cronaca, the architect, Savonarola, Capparo, the Ironsmith, and even Machiavelli; while Bernardo del Nero, the gonfalonier, whose death sentence Savonarola refused to revise, was Romola's godfather.
"A Wanderer in Florence"
E. V. Lucas
There was no difficulty in finding an Ironsmith in Canaan.
"Patriarchal Palestine"
Archibald Henry Sayce