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  • Mentre la tipa dorme, gli orsacchiotti se la spassano da pazzi giocando a poker…

    No Fat Clips!!! : Do Make Say Think – In Mind 2008

  • The former sort, therefore, called such men, madmen: but the latter called them sometimes demoniacs (that is, possessed with spirits); sometimes energumeni (that is, agitated or moved with spirits); and now in Italy they are called not only pazzi, madmen; but also spiritati, men possessed.

    Leviathan 2007

  • Qualunque sia il motivo, andrete pazzi per questo video e, penso, anche per la canzone.

    No Fat Clips!!! : ROD THOMAS – Your Love is a Tease 2007

  • A little anecdote, my friend's 'pazzi' mother, who was my brother's mother-in-law, used to tell people "va Napola!" when she was angry, this was a substitute for telling them to "go to hell".

    Archive 2006-09-17 Terry Nelson 2006

  • A little anecdote, my friend's 'pazzi' mother, who was my brother's mother-in-law, used to tell people "va Napola!" when she was angry, this was a substitute for telling them to "go to hell".

    You make my blood boil! Terry Nelson 2006

  • My beloved countrymen had evidently been the subject of conversation, and, as the two fellows approached my grounds, one of them pointed towards the villa and exclaimed: 'Tutti gli Inglesi sono pazzi, ma questo poi!'

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 Various

  • The former sort, therefore, called such men madmen; but the latter called them sometimes ‘demoniacs, ’ that is, possessed with spirits; sometimes energumeni, that is, agitated or moved with spirits; and now in Italy they are called not only pazzi, madmen but, also spiritati, men possessed.

    Chapter VIII. Of the Virtues Commonly Called Intellectual, and Their Contrary Defects 1909

  • English he felt friendly, as do most Italians; but he knew little of them, except that they were very rich, lived in a perpetual fog, and were "un poco pazzi."

    A Spirit in Prison Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

  • Firenze l 'abbino sempre intesa altrimenti, si accorgerebbono quanta pestifero sarebbe il governo de' Medici, se non avessi intorno altri che pazzi e cattivi. '

    Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots John Addington Symonds 1866

  • The former sort, therefore, called such men, madmen: but the latter called them sometimes demoniacs (that is, possessed with spirits); sometimes energumeni (that is, agitated or moved with spirits); and now in Italy they are called not only pazzi, madmen; but also spiritati, men possessed.

    Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill 1651

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