“Appearances are very often both convincing and deceiving.”

— Camillo Federici

Il Capello Parlante, Act III, Sc. I. — (Lancourt).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 351.

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Italian actor and playwright (1749-1802) 1749–1802

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