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Non è cosa che voglia tutta la diligenza dell’ uomo e che meno patisca gli errori, etiandio piccoli, quanto fa la guerra.
Giovanni Francesco Lottini
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La Pittura non è altro, che o albero o uomo o altra cosa, che si specchi in un fonte. La differenza, che è dalla Scultura alla Pittura è tanta, quanto è dalla ombra e la cosa, che fa l'ombra.

Benvenuto Cellini

— Painting, in fact, is nothing else much than a tree, a man, or any other object, reflected in the water. The distinction between sculpture and painting, is as great as between the shadow and the substance.
— Letter to Benedetto Varchi, January 28, 1546, cited from G. P. Carpani (ed.) Vita di Benvenuto Cellini (Milano: Nicolo Bettoni, 1821) vol. 3, p. 185; translation from Thomas Nugent (trans.) The Life of Benvenuto Cellini, a Florentine Artist (London: Hunt and Clarke, 1828) vol. 2, p. 265.

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Sí che vegga il mondo, quando la fortuna vuol torre a 'ssassinare uno uomo, quante diverse vie la piglia.

Benvenuto Cellini

— Let all the world witness how many different means Fortune employs when she wishes to destroy a man.
— Autobiography, vol. 1, ch. 113; translation from Benvenuto Cellini (trans. Julia Conaway Bondanella and Peter Bondanella) My Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002) p. 196.

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L’anima dell’ uomo apprendendo si nutrisce, siccome il corpo per lo cibo.

bartholomew of san concordio

— Part 30.
Translation: The soul of man is nourished by learning, as the body is by food.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 332.

Tags: dell, corpo, cibo

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E fu in quel tempo che io montai quassù, e dissi che io non era mandato a predicarti da uomo del mondo, né da signore alcuno, ma da colui che è signore dei signori e dalla santa Trinità.

girolamo savonarola

— I was not commissioned to preach by any man in this world, nor by any lord, but by Him who is the Lord of lords and by the Holy Trinity.
— Sermon of 18 February 1498, as quoted in Material for a History of Pope Alexander VI, His Relatives and His Time, 5 vols., (1924) by Monsignor Peter de Roo, Bruges, Desclée, De Brouwer, volume 3, p. 265. [1] Basic searches to find frequency and page number of specific words and phrases for all five volumes at HathiTrust.
— Scelta di Prediche e Scritti di Fra Girolamo Savonarola, con Nuovi Documenti Intorno alla Sua Vita (Selection of Sermons and Writings of Fra Girolamo Savonarola, with New Documents concerning his Life), 1898, Pasquale Villari, E. Casanova, Firenze (Florence), G. E. Sansoni, edition, p. 288. [2]
— Jérôme Savonarole: d'après les Documents Originaux (Girolamo Savonarola: According to the Original Documents), 1856, François Tommy Perrens, Paris, appendice, p. 352.[3]

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...debbe un uomo prudente entrare sempre per vie battute da uomini grandi, e quelli che sono stati eccellentissimi, imitare...


— A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent.
— Ch. 6

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Il mondo si regolerebbe da se stesso, se ciascun uomo fosse capace di regolar sé medesimo.

sixtus v (pope)

— Reported in Dante Leonardi, Spighe d'oro, Remo Sandron Editore, 1924.

Tags: mondo, stesso, ciascun, fosse

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Chi scrive in una lingua abbondante, è come un uomo che ha molti habiti, altri per usi domestici, altri per prodursi in pubblico, altri per le feste solenni.

francesco maria zanotti

— XI.
— Translation: He who writes in a rich language is like a man with many suits of clothes, some for home wear, others in which to appear in public, and others for state occasions.
— Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 271.

Tags: una, lingua, molti, altri, pubblico, feste

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