“Whoso obedience from his subjects seeks,
'Tis fitting that he first should learn to rule.”

—  Matteo Maria Boiardo

Chi vuole aver soggetti, che obbediscano,
Convien, che prima sappia comandare.
Act II, scene i
Timone (c. 1487)

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Italian writer 1441–1494

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