“The craftsman is in his own craft beguiled.”

— Torquato Tasso

Lo schermitor vinto è di schermo.
Canto XIX, stanza 14 (tr. Fairfax)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)

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Lo schermitor vinto è di schermo.

XIX, 14
Gerusalemme liberata

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Italian poet 1544–1595

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