Giusto de' Conti Quotes

Giusto de' Conti was an Italian poet and humanist.

✵ 1390 – 19. November 1449
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Giusto de' Conti Quotes

“I know the symptoms of the ancient flame.”

Conosco i segni de l'rantico foco.
La Bella Mano (Ed. Vinegia, 1531), p. 50.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 281.

“The soul that is from mundane error free
More deeply feels as happier it grows,
And loves the more, the more it understands.”

(Che) l’alma sciolta dal mondano errore
Tanto più sente, quanto è più felice;
E tant’ha più d’amor, quanto più intende.
La Bella Mano (Ed. Vinegia, 1531), p. 19.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 330.

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