. Presently Italian adults prefer to employ towards strangers until around 30 years old. It is used reciprocally between adults; the usage may not be reciprocal when young people address older strangers or otherwise respected people. Students are addressed with by their teachers until the end of high school with few exceptions and usually with in universities. Students might use with their teachers in elementary school, but switch to from middle school. is the common form of address on the Internet and within some professions such as journalism and law as a recognition of comradeship. In law school, however the is only used in informal settings; in the courtroom it is used only to small children, if ever any happens to appear there. The second-person plural pronoun is . Its polite counterpart is ("They"), but it is now little used outside of very formal situations. is the traditional polite form of address in Tuscan dialects: Dante employs it in his 14th-century Divine Comedy when showing particular respect. began to replace it during the Renaissance and then, under Spanish influence, it became common to contract obsequious honorifics such as "Your Lordship", "Eminence", and "Majesty", all of which are feminine third-person singular nouns in Italian (, , ). Over the next four centuries, all three pronouns—, , —were employed together to express degrees of formality and status, as displayed in Manzoni's 19th-century The Betrothed. In Lampedusa's The Leopard, when the Prince proposes on his nephew's behalf to the daughter of the rich but plebeian mayor, the latter suddenly switches from using the style of Your Excellency and the form Lei to the style of Prince and the form Voi: still respectful, but with much shorter social distance. continues to be used by some speakers, particularly of Southern dialects, as an alternative to in polite address, but its use is increasingly uncommon. The use of was imposed by the Fascists from 1938 to 1944. still appears in comics, and in instruction books and advertisements where would sound too distant, but in the latter case most of the time it is used directly as a plural and not as a polite singular. (An example of all three forms of address in action is the Italian The Lord of the Rings translation: a character such as Aragorn is usually addressed as , but neither nor seemed appropriate for how Samwise addresses his higher-class friend and