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Michelangelo. Madrigals. c. 1525.
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Machiavelli, Niccolò. Il Principe [The Prince]. Rome: Antonio Blado d'Asola, 1532.
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Machiavelli, Nicolò. The Prince, translated by Peter Bondanella. Oxford University Press, 2005.
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You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.
On Judaism and the Jewish people.
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Pope John Paul II. "Text of Pope's Speech at Rome Synagogue: 'You Are Our Elder Brothers.'" The New York Times, 14 Apr. 1986, sec. A, p. 4. Originally was a speech to the Jewish Community of Rome. 13 Apr. 1986, Great Synagogue of Rome, Rome, Italy.
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One need only remind oneself of all that we expect from life to see how very strange it is, and to arrive at the conclusion that man has found his way into it by mistake and does not really belong there.
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Svevo, Italo. La coscienza di Zeno [Zeno's Conscience]. Milan: Giuseppe Morreale Editore, 1923.
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Svevo, Italo. Zeno's Conscience, translated by William Weaver. Everyman's Library, 2001.
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Alighieri, Dante. "Inferno [Hell]." La Comedia di Dante Alleghieri [The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri]. Foligno: Johann Numeister and Evangelista Angelini da Trevi, 1472.
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Alighieri, Dante. "Inferno." The Divine Comedy, edited by David H. Higgins, translated by C. H. Sisson. Oxford University Press, 2008.
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Alighieri, Dante. "Inferno [Hell]." La Comedia di Dante Alleghieri [The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri]. Foligno: Johann Numeister and Evangelista Angelini da Trevi, 1472.
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Alighieri, Dante. "Inferno." The Divine Comedy, edited by David H. Higgins, translated by C. H. Sisson. Oxford University Press, 2008.
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Machiavelli, Niccolò. Il Principe [The Prince]. Rome: Antonio Blado d'Asola, 1532.
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Machiavelli, Nicolò. The Prince, translated by Peter Bondanella. Oxford University Press, 2005.
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Da Vinci, Leonardo. The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci. c. 1519.
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Machiavelli, Niccolò. Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio [Discourses on the First Ten of Titus Livy]. Papal Privilege, 1531, bk. 3, ch. 9.
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Machiavelli, Niccolo. Discourses on Livy, translated by Julia Conaway Bondanella and Peter Bondanella. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 3, ch. 9.
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Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Decameron. c. 1353.
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Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Decameron, translated by Wayne A. Rebhorn. W. W. Norton & Company, 2015.
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I could hardly find a book on morals where, even before I had read it in its entirety, I did not find several chapters or certain sections attacking women, no matter who the author was... I finally decided that God formed a vile creature when He made woman, and I wondered how such a worthy artisan could have deigned to make such an abominable work which, from what they say, is the vessel as well as the refuge and abode of ever evil and vice.
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De Pizan, Christine. Le Livre de la cité des dames [The Book of the City of Ladies]. Paris, c. 1405.
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De Pizan, Christine. The Book of the City of Ladies. Penguin Classics, 2000.
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A wise traveler never despises his own country.
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Goldoni, Carlo. La Pamela [The Pamela]. 1750, Teatro Sant'Angelo, Venice, Italy, act 1, sc. 16.
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How beautiful is youth,
that is always slipping away!
Whoever wants to be happy, let him be so:
of tomorrow there's no knowing.
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Medici, Lorenzo. Il trionfo di Bacco e Arianna [The Triumph of Bacchus and Arianna]. c. 1490.
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Galilei, Galileo. "Lettera des signor Galileo Galilei accademico linceo scritta all Granduchessa di Toscana [Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina]." Fiorenza, c. 1615.
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Galilei, Galileo. "Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina." The Essential Galileo. Hackett Publishing, 2008.
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Eco, Umberto. Il nome della rosa [The Name of the Rose]. Bompiani, 1980.
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Eco, Humberto. The Name of the Rose, translated by William Weaver. HarperVia, 2014.
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Eco, Umberto. Il nome della rosa [The Name of the Rose]. Bompiani, 1980.
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Eco, Humberto. The Name of the Rose, translated by William Weaver. HarperVia, 2014.
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The heart gets tired too; and it falls apart bit by bit, like an old cloth wears out in the wash.
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Verga, Giovanni. I Malavoglia. Italy, 1881, ch. 11.
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Verga, Giovanni. The House by the Medlar Tree, translated by Raymond Rosenthal. University of California Press, 1984, ch. 11.
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Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi. Il Gattopard [The Leopard]. Feltrinelli, 1958, ch. 1.
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Lampedusa, Giuseppe. The Leopard, translated by Archibald Colquhoun. Pantheon, 2007, ch. 1.
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Insurrection-by means of guerrilla bands-is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke.
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Mazzani, Giuseppe. General Instructions for the Members of Young Italy. 1831, sect. 4.
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The arousing from sleep, after a recent misfortune, is a bitter moment; the mind at first habitually recurs to its previous tranquility, but is soon depressed by the thought of the contrast that awaits it.
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Manzoni, Alessandro. I promessi sposi [The Betrothed]. Brusselle: Meline, Cans e Compagnia, 1842, ch. 2.
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Manzoni, Alessandro. The Betrothed, translated by Michael F. Moore. Modern Library, 2022, ch. 2.
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