"(Che) il leon non combatte con la mosca."
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Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 315.
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Francesco Bracciolini
Francesco Bracciolini (November 26, 1566 – August 31, 1645) was an Italian poet.
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