Punctuation inside quotes

Question

In American English, the following sentences correctly use the punctuation.

She told me "Don't talk to me like that!"

She told me "I love you."

When I hear "she is coming," I run in the opposite direction.

How would the translation in Italian of those sentences use the punctuation? In particular:

• Should I add a period after the quote in the first example?
• Is it correct to put the period inside the quote as in the second example?
• Does the comma in the third example go inside or outside the quote?

Answer 1

In the same order:

• It depends (different Italian publishers have different rules for this; I think I can quote sources for both uses).

• No (but even here there is not a universal consensus). I'd write:

  Mi disse “Ti amo”.

  But if a whole sentence or sequence of sentences are within quotes, the final period should be within as well (just like for brackets).

• Outside, definitely.