“In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.”

— Giovanni Boccaccio, book The Decameron

Sola la miseria è senza invidia nelle cose presenti.
Fourth Day, Introduction
The Decameron (c. 1350)

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Italian author and poet 1313–1375

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