New Hart's Rules: The Oxford Style Guide by Waddingham Anne

Author:Waddingham, Anne [Waddingham, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780198610410
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2014-08-27T16:00:00+00:00

Names of days and months (lunedì, gennaio) and languages, peoples, and adjectives of nationality are lower case: Parlo inglese e francese ‘I speak English and French’

Gli italiani ‘the Italians’

un paese africano ‘an African country’

although the capitalization of the names of peoples (gli Italiani) is becoming more common.

12.10.4 Punctuation

Italian makes a distinction between points of omission (which are spaced) and points of suspension (which are unspaced). The latter equate with the French points de suspension, three points being used where preceded by other punctuation, four in the absence of other punctuation.

Put the ordinary interword space after an apostrophe following a vowel: a’ miei, ne’ righi, po’ duro, de’ Medici. Insert no space after an apostrophe following a consonant: l’onda, s’allontana, senz’altro. When an apostrophe replaces a vowel at the beginning of a word a space always precedes it: e ’l, su ’l, te ’l, che ’l. Note, however, that in older printing these rules may be reversed: a’miei, l’ onda, e’l.

Single and double quotation marks, and guillemets, are all used in varying combinations. A final full point is placed after the closing quotation marks even if a question mark or exclamation mark closes the matter quoted:

«Buon giorno, molto reverendo zio!». ‘Good day, most reverend Uncle!’

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