“Unfettered sentiments in simple speech.”

—  Torquato Tasso

Liberi sensi in semplici parole.
Canto II, stanza 81 (tr. T. B. Harbottle)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)

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Liberi sensi in libere parole.

II, 81
Gerusalemme liberata
Variant: Liberi sensi in semplici parole.

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