Definition of "magnifico" [mag•nif•i•co]

• A person of distinguished rank, importance, or appearance: "He is both an old-world and a new-world figure, a feudal magnifico and a modern technocrat” ( Observer). (noun)
• A nobleman of the Venetian Republic. (noun)

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• "Posterity has agreed to call Lorenzo "the Magnificent", but this is, in part, a misunderstanding of the Italian title "magnifico", which was given to all the members of his family, and, indeed, during the fifteenth century, applied to most persons of importance in Italy to whom the higher title of "Excellence" did not pertain."
• "Venetian senator, the gloomy "magnifico" of St. Mark, have consented to"
• "NO world records were set, but Wangaratta's Viva Italia festival will still go down in history for being "magnifico" at the weekend."