Antonio Simeone Sografi Quotes

Antonio Simeone Sografi, also known as Antonio Simon, or just Antonio , was an Italian librettist and playwright.

After studying and graduating in his home town of Padua, he went to Venice, where he devoted himself to writing comedies and farces, as well as both humorous and serious text for major opera composers of the time. He was an active libretto from 1789 to 1816. It also produced texts for cantatas, oratorios, dramas and sacred compositions. Unlike most of his contemporaries, Sografi called his funny booklets "comedies", rather playful dramas; this because he followed the style of the character comedies of Goldoni and refused the too obvious comedy of art comedies.

He died in Padua. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. July 1759 – 4. January 1818
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Antonio Simeone Sografi Quotes

“Maidenly modesty is like aquavitæ, which keeps in perfect condition as long as it is tightly stoppered, but, if the air gets to it, evaporates at once.”

La verecondia delle donzelle è come l’acquavite. È perfetta sine a tanto che si tiene ben chiusa, ma se prende l’aria, vela subito via.
Olivo e Pasquale, Act I., Sc. VII. — (Pasquale.). Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 349.

“We won't say four, till we have them in the bag.”

Non si dice quattro, se non è nel sacco.
Olivo e Pasquale, Act II., Sc. VI. — (Campagnola.). Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 379.

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