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Italian pronunciation rules are different from those of Classical Latin. Even Ecclesiastical Latin sounds different from Classical Latin, and closer to the modern Italian norm. My school priest pronounced Humanae Vitae as "oo-man-eh bee-teh," whereas in ancient times it would have been "hoo-man-eye wee-tye."