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. It is
   2. a lamentable thing
   3. lamentévole cosa
   4. to see
   5. some men of great abilities
   6. uómo gràn talénto
   7. prone to wickedness.
   8. dédito vízio.

1. 1. A man
   2. uómo
   3. who suffers himself
   4. lasciársi
   5. to be led by
   6. allettáre
   7. the corrupted pleasures
   8. corrótto piacére
   9. of this world,
   10. quésto mondo
   11. is not like a Christian.
   12. símile Cristiáno.

1. 1. Children
   2. figliuólo
   3. are not always like
   4. sempre símile
   5. their parents,
   6. genitóre
   7. they are sometimes
   8. talvólta
   9. quite different from them.
   10. affátto differénte

1. 1. My father
   2. padre
   3. is like my uncle
   4. somigliáre zio
   5. as to his features,
   6. in quanto fattézza
   7. and the colour of his hair,
   8. colóre [3]capéllo
   9. but he is not like him
   10. ma éssere
   11. in his manners.
   12. costúme.

[1] Words in ù are indeclinable. See Gram. p. 50.

[2] Re is indeclinable.

[3] Of his hair, dei capelli in plur. and without the possessive pronoun.

On Superlative Degrees. [See Gram. p. 56.]

1. 1. The most noble
   2. la più nóbile
   3. of all virtues
   4. tutto virtù
   5. is charity.
   6. carità.