Therefore 12 lire a fiorino (the price of the libbra of silver as above, purchased abroad) = 8 fiorini 8 soldi.
Florence more than 12 lire a fiorino, whence arose great discontent to the woollen merchants, who feared that the gold florin, in which they received their foreign payments, should fall too much.
One fiorino d'oro being then current for about 3 lire 2 soldi piccioli.
Abroad, therefore, the price of silver was a matter of slightly more than 5 lire higher than in Florence.
Value in Venetian | Italian Lire of the | | | | Lira of History.
A fine of twenty lire was imposed on any one cognizant of heresy and not denouncing it; while the senator who neglected to enforce the law was subject to a mulct of two hundred marks and perpetual disability to office.
History of the Wars in Ireland by an Officer of the Royal Army, 1690; Lire of James, ii.
Nothing really dangerous, you understand; but finally the two thousand lire would be gladly paid over and the accidents would mysteriously cease.
She was not yet used to the Italian paper money, and had only a vague idea of its value, but she judged that two lire was the expected amount, and carried it accordingly to Peachy's dormitory.
And she looked for the vanished birds with much the same scared piteousness as the one-legged beggar had looked for the lost two-lire piece.
Near the fondamenta he turned and discovered her in the act of tendering from her purse a two-lire piece to the beggar who had hobbled expectant in her wake.
Heaven is described in the same rhapsodical style as in the Fis Adamnáin, the Félire Oengusa, etc.
Félire Oengusa and the Scéla Lái Brátha referred to in the preceding section.
Dina, the manager of the paper, was fond of him, and procured him extra work outside the office, thus adding twenty-five or thirty lire to his earnings.
And he was leading this life almost entirely at the expense of others, for how could he possibly have managed with only his one thousand Austrian lire a year?
Franco's was the most wretched of these attics, the rent being only seven lire a month.
I leave to my agent in Valsolda, Carlino Gilardoni, upon the same condition as above, four Milanese Lire a day, during his natural life.
To live a month on sixty lire took more courage than Franco himself had believed he possessed.
They took their meals at a restaurant in Vanchiglia, which they had christened "Stomach-ache Tavern," and where they had lunch and dinner for thirty lire a month.
Let's see; ten pounds and a box of cigars, that's three hundred lire at the price of exchange.
You had the picture just three weeks, a hundred lire a week for the use of all that education in art, all that spiritual influence.
On October 15 Guglielmo di Marco is paid 16 lire for his journey and eight days' employment in examining and judging the work of the church.
In another entry, noting the payment of 81 lire as salary, Marco da Frixone is named as Marco da Campione detto di Frisone.
They assigned four thousand lire a year to the re-edification, until such time as the church should be completed.
The books of the administration show that the sums paid for its construction amounted in all to seventy-two thousand lire italiane.
Also two lire ten soldi were spent in bread, meat, and wine, which were sent by the guild to the priests who officiated when the first stone was laid.
About the nine hundred and fiftylire which the Commune has of ours.
Imagine our joy when we found the back locker where the tools should have been crammed with bags of gold twenty lire pieces, while under the inside seat we found a number of neat packets of fifty and one-hundred and five-hundred lire notes.
Thirty thousand lire a year, and the favor of the Vatican; what fools Granaglia and I were to laugh!
He offers thirty thousand lire a year; not only that, but he will try to get his Holiness to give his countenance to the Society.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lire" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
