On Love (Commentary on Plato's Symposium)

for Pázzo mad, Véza vetch for Vézza caress, Rózo rough for Rózzo coarse, and all the others similar to these: or on the contrary Vízzij for Vízij, Ózzio for Ózio and similar ones.

And certainly, very many reasons persuaded and compelled me to do so: The first was providing for this necessity without making new characters, or marking these in any part, so as not to bring new things before the eyes of those accustomed to reading Tuscan things until today.

The second was that, even though it is said that the Zeta has only one sound in quantity, and on the other hand has the force of two consonants according to the said languages, for which it cannot directly be doubled: it nevertheless has among us a sound of two notable quantities: and with the single and simple it occupies the place of one consonant letter, and of two when it is double: since in ufízio office, Benefízio benefit, Amicízia friendship, Grázia grace, and Pronúnzia pronunciation, it covers that of a single one: that is, of the T or of the C. And in Azióne action and Distruzióne destruction, which are written for ct, in the Latin style, or for two Ts in the Tuscan style, one hears the double, no differently than in these words that are also Tuscan, Máza club and Spézo expense.