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La calandria


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“Act I, scene II. — (Polinico).”

Bernardo Dovizi book La calandria

Un padrone, quanti ha più servi, tanti più ha inimici.
Translation: The more servants a master has, the more enemies he has.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 432.
La Calandria (c. 1507)

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“Act I, scene II. — (Fesserio).”

Bernardo Dovizi book La calandria

Non può il vitello, e vuol che porti il hue.
Translation: He cannot manage the calf, and wants to carry the ox.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 377.
La Calandria (c. 1507)

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