salotto

plural salottos

1. An Italian drawing room.

   We saw the salotto on the other side of the portego, with its many historically important papers and maps.

   2002, Paula Weideger, Venetian Dreaming, New York, N.Y.: Washington Square Press, Atria Books, →ISBN, pages 146–147

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   On the other hand exedras or reception rooms, painting galleries, and salottos other than Corinthian, were half-cubes.

   1976, George L[eonard] Hersey, Pythagorean Palaces: Magic and Architecture in the Italian Renaissance, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 160

   These included the decision to dismantle and rebuild the stairs at the head of a salotto which led to the room looking onto the cortile segreto, and to dismantle part of a ceiling to accommodate the new vault in the vaulted salotto.

   1996, Thomas Tuohy, Herculean Ferrara: Ercole d’Este (1471–1505) and the Invention of a Ducal Capital (Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture), Cambridge University Press, published 2002, →ISBN, page 315

   Its vigorously carved acanthus frieze (fig. 4-29) and its classical foliated consoles and pilasters recall the chimneypiece in the salotto of the duchess’s apartment at Urbino (fig. 4-30), executed under Francesco di Giorgio, perhaps by Ambrogio Barocci. […] Thus the vestibule, the courtyard, and the staircase and the sala and the salotto on the piano nobile functioned as lochi publici (public areas), accessible to all visitors; […]

   1999, Olga Raggio, The Gubbio Studiolo and Its Conservation, volumes I (Federico da Montefeltro’s Palace at Gubbio and Its Studiolo), New York, N.Y.: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, pages 62 and 79, column 2

   All good salottos have need of a hostess, who puts her guests at their ease and encourages them to enter into the spirit of the occasion.

   2007, Jonathan White, Italian Cultural Lineages, Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 235