The C is always hard before an A, O an U, in Spanish and Italian, the soft one is before E and I. To have the hard C in Italian an H needs to be added, CHE or

The C is always hard before an A, O an U, in Spanish and Italian, the soft one is before E and I. To have the hard C in Italian an H needs to be added, CHE or CHI (while in Spanish that leads to something more like tch).