“Fame, whose sweet voice whispers of phantom bliss
to you proud mortals, and who seems so fair,
is a mere echo, dream, dream lost in shade,
at every wind-puff scattered and unmade.”

—  Torquato Tasso

La fama che invaghisce a un dolce suono
Voi superbi mortali, e par si bella,
E un'ecco, un sogno, anzi del sogno un'ombra,
Ch'ad ogni vento si dilegua e sgombra.
Canto XIV, stanza 63 (tr. Wickert)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)

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La fama che invaghisce a un dolce suono Voi superbi mortali, e par si bella, E un'ecco, un sogno, anzi del sogno un'ombra, Ch'ad ogni vento si dilegua e sgombra.

Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)

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