ricordon.

1617 D. Carleton Let. 2 Dec. (1757) 210 I gave them only a short memorial..concluding with this ricordo, which I thought necessary, as well for other regards as this.

1795 W. Roscoe Life Lorenzo de' Medici I. i. 14 These memorials, or Ricordi, were begun by Filigno de' Medici, who..entered, in a book yet extant..some information respecting its wealth, population, and respectability.

1879 A. J. C. Hare Life & Lett. Baroness Bunsen I. ii. 30 In her eighty-third year, the Baroness Bunsen..committed to writing some ricordi of her childhood.

1965 M. Domandi in tr. F. Guicciardini Maxims & Refl. (1992) 36 Guicciardini wrote and re-wrote his ricordi several times, changing them, polishing them, and rejecting some versions altogether.

2003 J. Shearman Raphael in Early Mod. Sources 904 It seems likely that the correct date of this ricordo is 4 December 1537.

1821 J. Severn Let. 19 Sept. in J. Keats Poet. Wks. (1883) IV. App. viii. 366 On our return home I thought of another ‘ricordo’ to him [sc. Keats]—a Greek seat, with his solitary lyre standing against it, but I will draw it.

1859 A. Elwes Paul Blake xxi. 221 A piece of money, which he could only get her to accept by begging her to keep it as a ricordo or remembrance of himself.

1887 B. Roosevelt Verdi i. iii. 14 Verdi never had so much as a wedding ricordo, or a halfpenny, or even a wedding-favour to recall his presence.

1926 Contemp. Rev. Dec. 770 Such is the little Play acted in Azusa, and for me a beautiful last ricordo of a place I had learned to love.

1904 Burlington Mag. Dec. 239/1 I regard the Head of Woman..as a forgery, and the Tobias with the Angel..as a copy or Ricordo.

1974 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Jan. 73/5 This much disputed, and admittedly unusual, drawing may in fact be Rembrandt's ‘ricordo’ of a composition by another, earlier, artist.

2007 Evening Standard (Nexis) 7 Dec. a43 I am disinclined to think it anything better than a studio ricordo or even the work of a scrupulous copyist.