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Italian citations of gli
Pronoun: them, to them
- ca. 1349-1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, Tommaso Edlin (1725), page 272:
- eſſa piacevolmente donde foſſero, et dove andaſſero, gli domandò.
- she amiably asked them where they were from and where they were going.
- 1559, Giovanni Della Casa, Trattato degli Uffici comuni tra gli amici superiori ed inferiori, reprinted in Galateo, Simone Occhi (1750), page 226:
- l’eſſere amati gli è ſommamente caro, parendo loro che chi gli ama gli approvi.
- being loved is extremely important to them, since they believe that those who love them approve of them.
- 1612-1615, Galileo Galilei, Copernican letters, Armando Editore (1995), page 39:
- io credo che il più presentaneo rimedio sia il battere alli Padri Gesuiti, come quelli che sanno assai sopra le comuni lettere de’ frati: però gli potrà dar la copia della lettera, ed anco leggergli, se le piacerà, questa che scrivo a lei …
- I think the most immediate remedy would be to approach the Jesuit Fathers, as those whose knowledge is much above the common education of friars. Perhaps you can give them the copy of the letter, and read them this one I am writing you, if you wish…
- 1638, Galileo Galilei, Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Relating to Two New Sciences, reprinted in Le Opere di Galileo Galilei, Vol. 13, Società Editrice Fiorentina, (1855), pages 51-52:
- Io non so quello che i Peripatetici fusser per dire, atteso che le considerazioni fatte da voi credo che gli giugnerebbero per la maggior parte nuove
- I know not what the Peripateticks would say, since the Considerations you have offer’d, I believe, would appear to them mostly new
- 1840, Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed, Fratelli Rechiedei (1872), page 79:
- La legge l’hanno fatta loro, come gli è piaciuto
- Other people have made the law as they pleased
- 1881, Giovanni Verga, The House by the Medlar Tree, Fratelli Treves (1907), page 72:
- Le belle ragazze di qui non sono degne di portargli le scarpe, a quelle di Napoli.
- The pretty girls here can’t hold a candle to the girls in Naples.
- 1936, Pietro Pancrazi, letter to Manara Valgimigli, reprinted in Storia di un’amicizia, Lampi di stampa (2003), page 38:
- ti mando queste bozze, perché tu gli dia un’occhiatina.
- I’m sending you these drafts so that you will take a look at them.
- 1937, Alfredo Panzini, Il bacio di Lesbia, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore (1949), page 8:
- Volli prendere le parole di questo poeta: esse di balzo volarono via, si perdettero ridendo nel sole nascente, scoppiarono in perle e rubini. Passerotti e rosignoli gli volarono dietro.
- I wanted to take this poet’s words: Suddenly, they flew away, lost themselves laughing in the rising sun, exploded into pearls and rubies. Young sparrows and nightingales flew after them.