“In a cloak of truth disguise your scheming.”
Fa manto del vero alia menzogna.
Canto IV, stanza 25 (tr. Wickert)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
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Fa manto del vero alla menzogna.
IV, 25
Gerusalemme liberata
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