Questions 18-22 refer to Listening Example E: Ma in I…
Questions 18-22 refer to Listening Example E: Ma in Ispagna son già mille e tre. V’han fra queste contadine, Cameriere, cittadine, V’han contesse, baronesse, Marchesine, principesse. E v’han donne d’ogni grado, D’ogni forma, d’ogni età. Nella bionda egli ha l’usanza Di lodar la gentilezza, Nella bruna la costanza, Nella Bianca la dolcezza. Vuol d’inverno la grassotta, Vuol d’estate la magrotta; È la grande maestosa, La piccina e ognor vezzosa. But in Spain, there are already 1003. Among these are country girls, maids, city women, countesses, baronesses, marchionesses, princesses, and women of every rank, of every shape, of every age. In a blonde he usually praises her kindness; in a brunette, her constancy; in a very fair one, her sweetness. He wants in winter a plump one, and in summer a lean one; The large one is majestic, the petite one always charming.