“The soul that is from mundane error free
More deeply feels as happier it grows,
And loves the more, the more it understands.”

— Giusto de' Conti

(Che) l’alma sciolta dal mondano errore
Tanto più sente, quanto è più felice;
E tant’ha più d’amor, quanto più intende.
La Bella Mano (Ed. Vinegia, 1531), p. 19.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 330.

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