See il in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"Tuscan Italian"
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"english": "The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate",
"ref": "1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VIII”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 62-64; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:",
"text": "e ’l fiorentino spirito bizzarro\nin sé medesmo si volvea co’ denti.\nQuivi il lasciammo, che più non ne narro;",
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"ref": "1349–1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Proemio”, in Decameron; republished as Aldo Francesco Massera, editor, Il Decameron, volume 1, Bari: Laterza, 1927:",
"text": "Esse dentro a’ dilicati petti, temendo e vergognando, tengono l’amorose fiamme nascose, le quali quanto piú di forza abbian che le palesi, coloro il sanno che l’hanno provato e pruovano:[…]",
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"ref": "1349–1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Giornata prima – Novella terza”, in Decameron; republished as Aldo Francesco Massera, editor, Il Decameron, Bari: Laterza, 1927:",
"text": "Il giudeo liberamente d’ogni quantitá che il Saladino il richiese il serví, ed il Saladino poi interamente il sodisfece,[…]",
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}
Download raw JSONL data for il meaning in Italian (7.7kB)
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