Lugano (Luga`no) , a lake partly in the Swiss canton of Ticino and partly in the Italian province of Como, 15 m. by 2 m., in the midst of picturesque grand scenery, with a town of the name on the NW. side amid vineyards and olive plantations.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Ludovicus Vives * Luini, Bernardino