“Three times the warrior has embraced the maid
in his huge arms.”
Tre volte il Cavalier la donna stringe
Con le robuste braccia.
Canto XII, stanza 57 (tr. Wickert)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
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Tre volte il Cavalier la donna stringe Con le robuste braccia.
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
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Torquato Tasso 94
Italian poet 1544–1595Related quotes
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“Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he
That every man in arms should wish to be?”
Source: Character of the Happy Warrior http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww302.html (1806), Line 1.