scatenati

Updated: May 16, 2025

We walked up the street, attended by a rabble rout of boys diavoli scatenati clean, grinning, white-teethed, who kept incessantly shouting, "Soldo, soldo!" I do not know why these sea-urchins are so far more irrepressible than their land brethren. But it is always thus in Italy. They take an imperturbable delight in noise and mere annoyance.

John Addington Symonds - New Italian sketches

We walked up the street, attended by a rabble rout of boys diavoli scatenati clean, grinning, white-teethed, who kept incessantly shouting, 'Soldo, soldo! I do not know why these sea-urchins are so far more irrepressible than their land brethren. But it is always thus in Italy. They take an imperturbable delight in noise and mere annoyance.

John Addington Symonds - Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series