Luigi Alamanni

"[About Germany and Austria] The Grifagna Eagle | which brings two beaks to devour more. (from Verses and prose by Luigi Alamanni, edited by Pietro Raffaelli, vol. I, Florence, C.E.1859, p. XXVIII)"

"Things banned increase the desire. (from Flora)"

"[...] nor is there anything more like God | who against the offender show themselves pious. (from Girone il cortese, google.it/books?id=d6WjRUQtH2AC&pg=PA77 77])"

"The harsh necessity, the custom and the time | giving birth day by day to cunning and art [...]. (III, 863; p. 223)"

"He who wants to embrace too much, squeezes nothing. (IV, 422; p. 265)"

"[...] the little brings much greater fruit | when there is good worship, that 'much incult [...]. (IV, 427; p. 265)"

"[...] stepmother sometimes, sometimes mother | the light of day comes into human works. [...]. (VI, 97; p. 310)"

"If I could tell it in rhyme to others | The sweet sight you gave me, Love, | On the blessed day when the heart | Ice cream and cold you warmed me in first place; | Perhaps such is the person who falsely estimates | All your kingdom is only tears and pain, | Which for me freed from the common error | Of his life would put you at the top . (from Sonnet – He would hope for comfort from the verses, p. 1)"

"Amor sees me, and with him Cintia and Flora, | This one on the right hand, and the one on the left side | There've other Tuscan foot not pressed yet, | Behind the tallest and most ornate of all | He sang for Delia, and to whom she wrote her name, | Now the second time he will be praised. Let them show me the path I am taking, and how Callimachus and Philetas showed it to them, | First to have this idra adorned their hair. (from Elegia – 2 beauties, Cintia and Flora, also light it up. TO SENATOR RENATO TRIULZIO OF MILAN, p. 2)"

"Enjoy therefore the soul's beauty for yourself | Of your Muses, those alone are mine | Who have a happy soul in a double flame accustomed. | Now receive some on the mountain, where it is collected Your name, among other clear spirits; | Yes, whoever is happy or saddened by love May my sayings still be dear to me at times. (from Elegia – Two beauties, Cintia and Flora, also light it up. TO SENATOR RENATO TRIULZIO OF MILAN, p. 4)"

"Today Flora is going through the countryside; | Come, sacred Pan, to do her honor, | What else so beautiful have you not seen yet. | Nor do you take this into disdain or pain, | Vaga Syringa, who gives her the pride The nine Muses, the three Graces, and the Hours. But you, horned God, if you aim a little | I stare at her, to new wonder | Your bagpipe will fall away. (from Elegy – Flora in the countryside, p. 4)"

"O miserable one who binds the soul | In his hot desires, which always then | For him it turns red, turns white, burns and freezes. (from Elegia – He narrates the cruelty of Love, and begs him to leave him alone, p. 10)"

"How hard it is, when you show your face serenely to others, to feel sadness and boredom, and laugh and cry in your heart! (from Elegia – He protests his love to his wife even though cruel, p. 10)"

"For then my tongue understands in vain | To complain about her, even if every day | Does the heart burn with false flattery? | How I wish until the dawn comes, | Cintia, I'll stay with you the whole night, | Nor then leave me all day again! (From Elegia- He protests his love to his wife, cruel as she is, p. 11)"

"Luigi Alamanni was certainly a noble and graceful poet: and yet, with all the elegances that he has scattered liberally here and there in Coltivazione, few read the six books of his blank verses: if we take away ours who therefore look for many strange and kind ways of speaking well. (Salvatore Betti)"

"Luigi Alamanni, On cultivation, in Versi e prose, edited by Pietro Raffaelli, 2 vols., Felice Le Monnier , Florence, C.E.1859, vol. II."

"Luigi Alamanni, Verses and prose, Felice Le Monnier, Florence, C.E.1859."