“For it would be indeed a foolish plan,
Two living men to lose for one dead man.”

— Ludovico Ariosto , book Orlando Furioso

Che sarebbe pensier non troppo accorto,
Perder duo vivi per salvar un morto.
Canto XVIII, stanza 189 (tr. B. Reynolds)
Orlando Furioso (1532)

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Che sarebbe pensier non troppo accorto | perder duo vivi per salvare un morto.

canto XVIII
Orlando furioso
Variant: Che sarebbe pensier non troppo accorto,
Perder duo vivi per salvar un morto.

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Italian poet 1474–1533

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