Pietro Nelli was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period.
He was born in Massa, where he had been a pupil of Giovanni Maria Morandi in Rome. He was known for his portraits including those of Cardinal Lodovico Pico ; Andrea Giuseppe Rossi ; and Bishop Giovanni Francesco Tenderini .
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“Custom ’tis alone That countless follies covers and defends.”
Satire, I., V. — ""A Sansedonio.""
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 435.
Di tre cose fa il diavolo insalata,
Di lingue d’Avvocati, e delle dite
De’ Notari, la terza è riservata.
Satire, I., IX. — "Peccadigli degli Avvocati."
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 288.
Satire, II., IX. — ""A Benedetto Barbarigo.""
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 277.
Un litigante è di vincer si ingordo,
Che non dà a se, o altrui pace o riposo,
Ma ad ogni altro piacer è cieco e sordo.
Satire, II., IX. — "Peccadigli degli Avvocati."
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 432.
L’esser d’ un’ avvocato, chi ben pensa,
E un molino, ove a macinar concorre
D’ogni sorte di genti copia immensa.
Satire, I., IX. — "Peccadigli degli Avvocati."
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 334.
