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I've heard this name pronounced so many different ways, and I wish I knew which was was correct. I'm in the USA, native English speaker, so my phonetics will be based on English phonemes. I hope this isn't confusing when trying to tell me how to correctly pronounce this guy's name.
Anyway, trying to transposing the sound into English, I would write something like
Cheero Mar-keht-ti
Vowels are important, and have to be understandable. A is always read as in "alpha", E is read as in "red", I is read as the double ee in "cheese", O like in "open" and U as the English double oo.
I wrote the "i" in Ciro as a "ee" and the one in Marchetti as "i" for underling that the first one is longer. I added an "h" after the "e" in Marchetti because that "e" must me said clearly.
The double T sound is probably the hardest to explain, it is midway between a long T sound and two consecutive T sounds.
(I'mean writing this at 7:30 am from my cellphone, so I can't exclude typos, weird correction made by the phone or errors I made because still too sleepy for posting).
Thank you, everyone for your responses! Urania, I deeply appreciate the depth of your answer. I studied your vowel pronunciations, and I'll remember them in the future when encountering Italian words. I'll also remember the double "t." I didn't pay much attention to it initially, but I realize many native English speakers change the t to d because they're formed the same in the mouth, and it's just easier to use the voiced d over the unvoiced t. I know I was pronouncing it Mar -keh -dee and not Mar -keh -tee myself. I'll be more careful now when encountering Italian words, try not to devolve into the voiced d when I encounter t.
With a user name of Algiz (Ariete, you got it!), one might surmise a love of language and other things, yes, and that person would be right.
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