Note 12 — Chapter XII
I. Stone Sanpietro translation
The author of this book has given the pronunciation of the above words according to the sounds and rules of Italian and it has been a difficult task to present them in a sufficiently orthoepical form for English readers to understand, for the reason that all the vowels and many of the consonants are so differently articulated in the two languages.
Where a is followed by h it should be pronounced as in father; by w as in all; by y as in may. The consonants g k and n which precede certain words and which would be mute in English must be very lightly accented with the same sound they have in the alphabet.—Translator's Notes.