“Bold, but cautiously bold.”

— Torquato Tasso

Audace si, ma cautamente audace.
Canto XVIII, stanza 57
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)

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Audace si, ma cautamente audace.

Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)

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