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40. 71 ; 48- 8; 42. 39; 43- 125 ; 43. 187; 44. 89; 45. 8; 

 46. 26 ; 46. 50 ; 46. 61 ; 46. yj ; 46. 108 ; 46. 120.) 



I found also in Ariosto two exceptions to the rule for 

 the accusative, the first of which is undoubtedly due to 

 the rhyme : — 



Non cosi strettamente edera pre me 

 Pianta ove intorno abbarbicata s' abbia ; 

 Come si stringon li dvie amanti insieme; 

 Cogliendo dello spirto in sulle labhia ; 



Suave fior 7-29 



E poi che '1 Sol s" ebbe nel mar rinchiuso 34. 68 



Francesco Guicciardini. 



During the time of Guicciardini, that is to say in the latter 

 part of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the six- 

 teenth, several important rules must have become general in 

 Italian, at least in prose-writers ; for one does not find in 

 Guicciardini forms in ade, ate, for a, and conditionals in aria 

 like avria for avrebbe. And it must be also about that period 

 that the auxiliary essere was used to conjugate reflexive verbs 

 with a pronoun in the dative case, just as it was used to con- 

 jugate reflexive verbs with a pronoun in the accusative case. 

 Of course avere was also used, and plenty of instances are 

 found in Guicciardini himself ; but we may say that from 

 that time on avere was decreasing all the time in its use 

 as auxiliary of reflective verbs with dative case pronouns. 

 From the eighteenth century on, I do not find traces of it in 

 the authors examined. 



Istoria d'' Italia. 



Dative Case : — 



Pero poi che lungamente si ebbe rivolto per 1' animo lo state delle cose (I. 25). 



— Cominciassero cosi presto a non corrispondere a quel che di lui s' aveva pro- 

 messo (I. 69). — Che una famiglia sola s' avesse arrogata la potesta (I. 136). 



— I quali Alessandro con doni s' aveva fatti benevoli (I. 166). — Molti che s' 

 avevano proposta maggior larghezza (II. 200). — S' avevano astutamente insino 

 allora lasciaia libera la facolta di fare il contrario (II. 224). 



Accusative Case: — 



Si la morte non si fosse interposta a' consigli suoi (I. 18). — Non si sarebbe 

 per avventura la pace d' Italia perturbata (I. 26). — Desideroso di ricorreggere 



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