“Act I., Scene I. — (Vicenzo).”

— Alessandro Piccolomini

Il mondo va invecchiando e peggiorando di mano in mano.
Translation: The world grows older and grows worse from generation to generation.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 317.
L’Alessandro (1544)

Original

Il mondo va invecchiando e peggiorando di mano in mano.

Vicenzo: Atto I, scena I
L’Alessandro (1544)
Source: Citato in Harbottle, p. 317.

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Italian writer and philosopher 1508–1579

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