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Io non so s’i’ mi fui qui troppo folle, ch’i’ pur rispuosi lui a questo metro: “Deh, or mi dì: quanto tesoro volle Nostro Segnore in prima da san Pietro ch’ei ponesse le chiavi in sua balìa? Certo non chiese se non “Viemmi retro.”

Italians might agree that the touch is “un po troppo”; you can use it or lose it.

Born into genteel poverty, Camillo was made a cardinal by his distant relative, Pope Innocent X — whom Velázquez had also painted, and who reacted to his own portrait with the notorious exclamation “Troppo vero”: “too real.”

Vuole dare il proprio legittimo contributo alle comunità locali e alla più vasta società, e beneficiare delle risorse e dello sviluppo troppo spesso riservati a pochi.

But there were also moments of great delicacy, as with the evanescent pizzicatos at the end of the symphony’s Vivace non troppo movement, a quintessential Mendelssohn scherzo in all but name.