“What sign is there more plain
Than self-destruction, of a mind insane?”

—  Ludovico Ariosto , book Orlando Furioso

Quale è di pazzia segno più espresso
Che, per altri voler, perder se stesso?
Canto XXIV, stanza 1 (tr. B. Reynolds)
Orlando Furioso (1532)

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Quale è di pazzia segno più espresso Che, per altri voler, perder se stesso?

Orlando Furioso (1532)

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