“Fortune, who takes care of the insane.”

—  Ludovico Ariosto, book Orlando Furioso

La Fortuna, che dei pazzi ha cura.
Canto XXX, stanza 15 (tr. B. Reynolds)
Orlando Furioso (1532)

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