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Updated: May 16, 2025
Yesterday, while I was eating my dinner, I heard Filomena's story. She came to Rome last December: "You think I came because Maria wanted to help mother. I came to Rome because there was a man who wanted to marry me." "What was his name?" "His name was Peppe." "Lo mi' amore, che si chiama Peppe."... "Ah, I do not love him at all. No, the thing is that at Camerino all the men beat their wives.
Visne mi dare traductionem in istam linguam Toscanam non nullorum verborum? To this he replied, 'Libenter, and the people revered us both. Thus he told me the name for a knife was cultello; for a room, camera par domire; for 'what is it called? 'come si chiama?; for 'what is the road to? 'quella e la via a...? and other phrases wherein, no doubt, I am wrong; but I only learnt by ear.
Come vi chiamate? or Come si chiama? and so forth and so forth until one's mind seems to be arranged in tabulated columns, with special N.B.'s to use the infinitive in talking to the gondolier.
"Luna fedel, tu chiama Col raggio ed io col suon, La fulgida mia dama Sul gotico veron!" "You know," he went on impetuously "You know I told you before that I am not a society man. I said that if I came to dinner to meet your London friends, I should be very much in the way. You have found me so. A man of my age and of my settled habits and convictions ought to avoid society altogether.
Non prendite le fiori di nessuno, Se vuoi un garofletto, lo do io. Fior di limone! Limone e agra, e le fronde son' amare, Ma son' piu' amare le pene d'amor'. Lo mi' amore che si chiama Peppe, Lo primo giuocatore delle carte Prende 'sto cuore e giuoca a tre-sette. The woman who weeps so much for the man's sake Yet, the complaint of women is a feigned one. My love! Do not accept flowers from anyone.
And in line 131, for Eunoe si chiama, Jesi supplies the curious word curioce si chiama.
As I rose to go out of Tizzano Val Parmense my guide said to me, 'Se chiama Tira-Buchon perche E' lira il buchon' And I said to him, 'Dominus Vobiscum' and left him to his hills. So I went up to a little wooded bank, and lay there in the shade sketching Tizzano Val Parmense, where it stood not much above me, and then I lay down and slept for an hour and smoked a pipe and thought of many things.
"Ving-y-ving!" growled this functionary, not a little puzzled "what ze devil sort of name is zat! Ask zem again." "Come si chiama la vostra barca, Signori Inglesi?" repeated he who hailed. "Diable!" growled one back, in French; "she is called ze Wing-and-Wing 'Ala e Ala," giving a very literal translation of the name, in Italian.
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