Pietro Nelli: Translation

Pietro Nelli was Italian painter. Explore interesting quotes on translation.

Pietro Nelli: 10 quotes 0 likes

“When he mixes a salad, the Devil, I’ve heard.
Three ingredients uses; first advocates’ tongues.
Next notaries’ fingers; I’ll not name the third.”

Pietro Nelli

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.

“A litigant to winning so devotes his energies
That he never gives his neighbours or himself a moment’s rest,
But for every other pleasure he has neither ears nor eyes.”

Pietro Nelli

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.

Pleasure

“A lawyer’s office is, I’m sure you’ll find,
Just like a mill, whereto for grinding come
A crowd of folk of every sort and kind.”

Pietro Nelli

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.