
“It was not seemly to raise your flags on the minarets.”
Fiction, Napoleon Symphony (1974)
A donna né bellezza,
Né nobiltà, né gran fortuna basta,
Sì che di vero onor monti in altezza,
Se per nome e per opre non è casta.
Canto XLIII, stanza 84 (tr. B. Reynolds)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
A donna né bellezza, Né nobiltà, né gran fortuna basta, Sì che di vero onor monti in altezza, Se per nome e per opre non è casta.
Orlando Furioso (1532)
“It was not seemly to raise your flags on the minarets.”
Fiction, Napoleon Symphony (1974)
Book XLIII, line 628
Translations, Orlando Furioso of Ludovico Ariosto (1773)
“Just like his wife before she freezed on him,
Just like his wife when she was beautiful.”
Song lyrics, Never for Ever (1980)
The Essays Or Counsels, Civil And Moral, Of Francis Ld. Verulam Viscount St. Albans (1625), Of Marriage and Single Life
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
“I always wanted a beautiful loving wife and she always wanted to be a citizen.”
E=MO² (1985), Track Two + Track Two continued