“And in that place the cruel tyrant, Love,
Who treacherously every promise breaks,
Who bides his time and watches every move,
And every chance to thwart true lovers takes.”

—  Ludovico Ariosto , book Orlando Furioso

Quivi il crudo tiranno Amor, che sempre
D'ogni promessa sua fu disleale,
E sempre guarda come involva e stempre
Ogni nostro disegno razionale.
Canto XIII, stanza 20 (tr. B. Reynolds)
Orlando Furioso (1532)

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Quivi il crudo tiranno Amor, che sempre D'ogni promessa sua fu disleale, E sempre guarda come involva e stempre Ogni nostro disegno razionale.

Orlando Furioso (1532)

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