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About Bernardo Dovizi
Bernardo Dovizi or Bibbiena (August 4, 1470 – November 9, 1520) was an Italian cardinal and comedy-writer, known best as "Cardinal Bibbiena", for the town Bibbiena, where he was born.
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β(Che) bel fin fa chi ben amando muore.
• Translation: Fair is his end who loving well doth die.β
• Translation: Fair is his end who loving well doth die.β
βUn buon servo non dee mai avere ozio.
• Translation: A good servant should never have any leisure.β
• Translation: A good servant should never have any leisure.β
βChi scappa dβun punto ne schifa cento.
• Translation: Who flies from one danger escapes a hundred.β
• Translation: Who flies from one danger escapes a hundred.β
βNon puΓ² il vitello, e vuol che porti il hue.
• Translation: He cannot manage the calf, and wants to carry the ox.β
• Translation: He cannot manage the calf, and wants to carry the ox.β
βA donna non si puΓ² credere, eziam poi che Γ¨ morta.
• Translation: You cannot believe a woman, even when she is dead.β
• Translation: You cannot believe a woman, even when she is dead.β
βUn padrone, quanti ha piΓΉ servi, tanti piΓΉ ha inimici.
• Translation: The more servants a master has, the more enemies he has.β
• Translation: The more servants a master has, the more enemies he has.β
βChi ha amore in seno sempre ha i sproni in fiance.
• Translation: He who has love in his breast has ever the spurs at his flanks.β
• Translation: He who has love in his breast has ever the spurs at his flanks.β
βLβuomo mai un disegno non fa, che la fortuna un altro non ne faccia.
• Translation: Man never makes a plan but fortune makes another.β
• Translation: Man never makes a plan but fortune makes another.β
βNon puΓ² essere superiore di consigli, chi Γ¨ inferiore di costumi.
• Translation: He cannot be the better in counsels who is the worse in morals.β
• Translation: He cannot be the better in counsels who is the worse in morals.β
βEgli Γ¨ meglio perdere, dicendo il vero, che vincere con le bugie.
• Translation: It is better to speak the truth, and lose, than to win by lying.β
• Translation: It is better to speak the truth, and lose, than to win by lying.β
βLa donna Γ¨ sopra la pecunia, come il sol sopra il ghiaccio, che del continue lo strugge e consume.
• Translation: Woman over money is like the sun upon ice, which is all the time: melting and consuming it.β
• Translation: Woman over money is like the sun upon ice, which is all the time: melting and consuming it.β
About Bernardo Dovizi
Bernardo Dovizi or Bibbiena (August 4, 1470 – November 9, 1520) was an Italian cardinal and comedy-writer, known best as "Cardinal Bibbiena", for the town Bibbiena, where he was born.