“Well says the proverb, that it is better to live with wild beasts in caves, than in the same house with a cross-grained and quarrelsome woman.”

— Agnolo Firenzuola

(Ben dice il proverblo ch’) egli è megllo abitare colle fiere in le spilonche, che avere in casa una femmina litlgiosa e perversa.
Act I., Scene II. — (Lucido Tolto).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 297.
I Lucidi (published 1549)

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(Ben dice il proverblo ch') egli è megllo abitare colle fiere in le spilonche, che avere in casa una femmina litigiosa e perversa.

atto I, scena II
I Lucidi
Variant: (Ben dice il proverblo ch’) egli è megllo abitare colle fiere in le spilonche, che avere in casa una femmina litlgiosa e perversa.
Source: Citato in Harbottle, p. 297.

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