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"You never read about the real pain. It lives where no word can travel."
"I gave my smile its liberty, with no curfew nor bounds."
"Life is my lover."
"Truth is too big a price to pay for the luxury of avoiding pain now and then."
"I wanted you to know me."
"Your kisses are thieves which leave me wanting nothing."
"If you were the sky, I would unfurl myself in you, as a rainbow of colors yet unseen. I would become oceans of stars in your night."
"Joy and Sorrow have as source the very soul who planned their course."
"Vanna's 2Suit is just one small step toward humankind colonizing the universe."
"Now this is a writer."
"Above all, two qualities stand out about Vanna Bonta as a person, her candor and ingenuousness, and a childlike soul."
"I was inexpressibly struck, overtaken by chills, the likes of which I have not felt since the time I studied Sylvia Plath. Vanna Bonta is an important discovery."
"Ready to test that law [physics] and go where no man and woman have gone before is Vanna Bonta."
"She totally enchanted us. Her presence was kind and is still greatly missed."
"She plays like a child and creates like a genius."
"I think the concept of the 2suit is perfect. But I also think just the philosophy of thinking, thinking beyond normal into creating a suit for two people is wonderful."
"Amor, s’io posso uscir de’ tuoi artigli, appena creder posso che alcuno altro uncin mai piú mi pigli."
"Essere la natura de' motti cotale, che essi come la pecora morde deono cosi mordere l'uditore, e non come 'l cane: percio che, se come cane mordesse il motto, non sarebbe motto, ma villania."
"Ci cacciano in cucina a dir delle favole colla gatta."
"Uno amore...a lieto fin pervenuto, in una novelletta assai piccola intendo di raccontarvi."
"There are few works which have had an equal influence on literature with the Decameron of Boccaccio. Even in England its effects were powerful. From it Chaucer adopted the notion of the frame in which he has enclosed his tales, and the general manner of his stories, while in some instances, as we have seen, he has merely versified the novels of the Italian. In 1566, William Paynter printed many of Boccaccio's stories in English, in his work called the Palace of Pleasure. The first translation contained sixty novels, and it was soon followed by another volume, comprehending thirty-four additional tales. These are the pages of which Shakespeare made so much use. From Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, we learn that one of the great amusements of our ancestors was reading Boccaccio aloud, an entertainment of which the effects were speedily visible in the literature of the country. The first English translation, however, of the whole Decameron, did not appear till 1620. In France, Boccaccio found early and illustrious imitators. In his own country he brought his native tongue to perfection, and gave stability to a mode of composition, which before his time had only existed in a rude state in Italy; be collected the current tales of the age, which he decorated with new circumstances, and delivered in a style which has no parallel for elegance, naivete, and grace. Hence his popularity was unbounded, and his imitators more numerous than those of any author recorded in the annals of literature."
"Se egli fu lieto assai, la letizia della giovane non fu minore."
"E poco appresso levatasi la luna, e 'l tempo essendo chiarissimo, [egli] vegghiava."
"Una boccuccia piccolina, le cui labbra parevan due rubinetti."
"Come la copia delle cose genera fastidio, cosl l'esser le desiderate negate moltiplica l'appetito."
"Chi è reo e buono è tenuto Può fare il male e non è creduto."
"Sola la miseria è senza invidia nelle cose presenti."
"Normand R. Cartier, Boccaccio's Revenge: A Literary Transposition of the Corbaccio (The Old crow) (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1977)"
"Nathaniel Griffin and Arthur Myrick, The Filostrato of Giovanni Boccaccio (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1929)"
"Guido A. Guarino, Boccaccio, Concerning Famous Women (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1963)"
"Thomas B. Harbottle and Philip H. Dalbiac, Dictionary of Quotations (French and Italian), 2nd ed. (London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Ltd., 1904)"
"James Macmullen Rigg, The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio, 2 vols. (London: A. H. Bullen, 1903)"
"George Henry McWilliam, Giovanni Boccaccio: The Decameron (London: Penguin Classics, 1972; 1995)"
"Fate quello che noi diciamo e non quello che noi facciamo."
"La gente è più acconcia a credere il male che il bene."
"Io ho inteso che un gallo basta assai bene a diece galline, ma che diece uomini posson male o con fatica una femina sodisfare."
"Lo ingannatore rimane a pié dello ingannato."
"Bocca baciata non perde ventura, anzi rinnuova come fa la luna."
"Le cose mal fatte e di gran tempo passate son più agevoli a riprendere che ad emendare."
"Peccato celato e mezzo perdonato."
"Natural ragione è di ciascuno che ci nasce, la sua vita, quanto può, aiutare e conservare e difendere."
"Non come uomini, ma quasi come bestie, morieno."
"It is annoying and impossible to suffer proud women, because in general Nature has given men proud and high spirits, while it has made women humble in character and submissive, more apt for delicate things than for ruling."
"Quale asino dà in parete cotale riceve."
"La gentilezza non si può lasciar in eredità , se non come le virtù, le scienze, la santità , e così fatte cose."
"Giovine donna è mobile, e vogliosa È negli amanti molti, e sua bellezza Estima più ch'allo specchio, e pomposa Ha vanagloria di sua giovinezza; La qual quanto piacevole e vezzosa È più, cotanto più seco l'apprezza: Virtù non sente, né conoscimento, Volubil sempre come foglia al vento."
"Come del morire."
"Se medesimi esaltando con parole da fare per istomacaggine le pietre saltar del muro e fuggirsi."
"Leggiadre donne, infra molte bianche colombe aggiugne più di bellezza uno nero corvo, che non farebbe un candido cigno."
"Chi mal ti vuol, mal ti sogna."