Ninu

While it was cooking, and Ninu absent, one of the old women came begging, and the widow gave her a piece of meat.

Italian Popular Tales Thomas Frederick Crane

Ninu, of course, bought some and gave it to his mother to cook.

Italian Popular Tales Thomas Frederick Crane

As she was going down-stairs Ninu met her and asked her what she was doing.

Italian Popular Tales Thomas Frederick Crane

_Ninu ilu [s.] irum_ from its opening words, and recopied for fifteen hundred years or more.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

Ninu presented himself to the king and said: "Your Majesty, it was I."

Italian Popular Tales Thomas Frederick Crane

Then there was Ninu, also employed by the municipio, a great bullock of a fellow bursting with health, whose legs were too short for him and his smile a dream of romance.

Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions Henry Festing Jones 1889

The woman of the hut had a baby in her arms and I said to Ninu:

Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions Henry Festing Jones 1889

They went to Venice, which was a particularly suitable place, because his cousin Vanni was there with his ship, the _Sorella di Ninu_, unloading a cargo of wine; they crossed by night to Naples, and Peppino showed Brancaccia Pompeii and all the sights; then they went to Rome for a few days and on, through Florence, to Venice.

Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions Henry Festing Jones 1889

He said she was the _Sorella di Ninu_, returning from Naples, where she had been with a cargo of wine.

Diversions in Sicily Henry Festing Jones 1889

By this time we had arrived at the quay and Peppino went off to his uncle's shop for information as to approaching the _Sorella di Ninu_, leaving me alone with Carmelo.

Diversions in Sicily Henry Festing Jones 1889