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. England is adorned with
   2. Inghiltérra ornáre
   3. the fairest ladies
   4. [3]belle signóra
   5. in the world.
   6. di questo mondo.

1. 1. Our country is
   2. paése
   3. surrounded with
   4. chiúdere
   5. the strongest bulwarks.
   6. [3]forte baluárdo.

1. 1. Few people are
   2. poco gente
   3. satisfied with
   4. soddisfáre
   5. the lot that
   6. sorte
   7. Providence has granted them.
   8. Providénza concédere.

[1] See Gram. p. 44, on words ending in tà.

[2] See Veneroni’s Grammar, p. 53, on comparatives.

[3] Ibid. p. 56, on superlatives.

Adjectives governing a Dative Case. Adjectives expressing submission, relation, pleasure, due, resistance, difficulty, likeness, have the following Noun in the Dative case.

1. 1. Virtue is pleasant to
   2. [1]virtù piacévole
   3. the righteous,
   4. giústo
   5. and profitable to
   6. profittévole
   7. those who love it.
   8. quello che amáre.

1. 1. Adoration
   2. L’adorazione
   3. is due to God,
   4. dovúto Dio
   5. the King of all the world.
   6. [2]Re tutto mondo.

1. 1. Honour is due to kings,
   2. onóre dovúto Re
   3. because
   4. perchè
   5. God has commanded us
   6. avére comandáre
   7. to be obedient to them.
   8. éssere obbediénte