Exercises upon the Different Parts of Italian Speech, with References to Veneroni's Grammar / to which is added an abridgement of the Roman history, intended at once to make the learner acquainted with history, and the idiom of the Italian language

by Ferdinando Bottarelli

1. 1. My exercise
   2. tema
   3. and my lesson
   4. lezióne
   5. are
   6. difficult.
   7. diffícile.

1. 1. Our man-servant
   2. servitore
   3. and our maid-servant
   4. serva
   5. are
   6. good,
   7. buóno
   8. and therefore
   9. perciò
   10. they shall be rewarded.
   11. saranno ricompénsati.

1. 1. You,
   2. your master,
   3. padróne
   4. and your mistress,
   5. padróna
   6. have been civil
   7. éssere stato civíle
   8. [2]to me, and
   9. merit
   10. meritáre
   11. my greatest thanks.
   12. [3]gránde ringraziaménto.

[1] An adjective with several substantives, must agree in gender with that which is the most worthy, the masculine being accounted more worthy than the feminine.

[2] Render it thus; towards me, verso di me.

[3] See Gram. p. 56, on superlatives.

On COMPARATIVES. [See Gram. p. 53.]

1. 1. France
   2. Fráncia
   3. is larger
   4. grande
   5. and more powerful than
   6. poténte
   7. Italy.
   8. Itália.

1. 1. Virgil wrote
   2. Virgílio scrívere
   3. more than
   4. any other poet.
   5. qualúnque altro poéta[1].

1. 1. Horace was
   2. Orázio éssere
   3. much more satirical than
   4. satírico
   5. Juvenal.
   6. Giuvenale.