How beautiful is youth,
that is always slipping away!
Whoever wants to be happy, let him be so:
of tomorrow there's no knowing.

Quanto e bella giovinezza
Che si fugge tuttavia!
Chi vuol esser lieto sia:
Di doman non ci e certezza.

Lorenzo de Medici

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Topic

Youth Living in the moment

Author

Lorenzo de Medici

Source

Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne

Medium

Poem

Language

Italian

Time

1490 1490s 15th century

Occupation

Politician

From

Italy Europe

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Citation

Medici, Lorenzo. Il trionfo di Bacco e Arianna [The Triumph of Bacchus and Arianna]. c. 1490.

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Prime of life Youth
Speaker
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Source
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Medium
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Genre
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Language
English
Time
1607 1600s 17th century
Era
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Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. Antony and Cleopatra. King's Men, c. 1607, London, England, UK, act 1, sc. 5.

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Shakespeare, William. "Antony and Cleopatra." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 1, sc. 5.

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Thence we came forth to see the stars again.

Dante Alighieri

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Author

Dante Alighieri
Source
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Medium
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Genre
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Language
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Time
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Era
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Alighieri, Dante. "Inferno." The Divine Comedy, edited by David H. Higgins, translated by C. H. Sisson. Oxford University Press, 2008.