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. I wish I could
   2. speak Italian
   3. parláre Italiáno
   4. as well as you do,
   5. it would be
   6. éssere
   7. a great satisfaction
   8. grande soddisfazióne
   9. to me.

1. 1. I wish I could
   2. do
   3. fare
   4. what you desire of me,
   5. desideráre
   6. I would not refuse it you.
   7. ricusáre.

1. 1. I wish I could
   2. be reconciled with
   3. éssere riconciliáto
   4. your brother,
   5. fratéllo
   6. for
   7. perchè
   8. he is
   9. an honest man.
   10. galantuómo.

1. 1. I wish I could
   2. go into the country
   3. andáre campágna
   4. with you,
   5. I would not return soon
   6. ritornáre presto
   7. to town,
   8. città
   9. for I would visit
   10. andar a visitáre
   11. all my friends
   12. tutto amíco
   13. who are there.

1. 1. I wish I could
   2. follow
   3. seguíre
   4. your example,
   5. esémpio
   6. I would live
   7. better than I do.
   8. meglio.

Ought and must are to be rendered in Italian by the Present of the Indicative of the Verb dovere, and are not Impersonal.

1. 1. At church
   2. chiésa
   3. people
   4. gente
   5. ought to sit still,
   6. dovére stare quieto
   7. and not to talk.
   8. parláre.

1. 1. At saying lessons,
   2. ripétere lezióne
   3. none ought to speak
   4. dovére parláre
   5. but he who is
   6. destináto
   7. appointed by
   8. the master,
   9. maéstro
   10. whose leave
   11. permésso
   12. ought to be asked,
   13. dovére domandáre
   14. before
   15. prima
   16. the scholars betake themselves
   17. scoláre darsi
   18. to play.
   19. giuóco.

1. 1. The boy
   2. ragázzo
   3. who is chastised
   4. castigáto
   5. on account of
   6. a cagióne
   7. his slothfulness,
   8. infingardággine
   9. has no cause to accues
   10. avére motivo accusáre
   11. his master
   12. maéstro
   13. of severity;
   14. severità
   15. he ought to blame himself,
   16. dovére biasimársi
   17. and resolve
   18. risólvere
   19. to shake off idleness
   20. scuotersi dalla sua pigrízia
   21. for the future.
   22. all’avveníre.