Non può il vitello, e vuol che porti il hue.
• Translation: He cannot manage the calf, and wants to carry the ox." - Meaning and context.">
Act I, scene II. — (Fesserio).
 • Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 377.
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Non può il vitello, e vuol che porti il hue.
• Translation: He cannot manage the calf, and wants to carry the ox.

— Bernardo Dovizi

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Non può il vitello, e vuol che porti il hue.
• Translation: He cannot manage the calf, and wants to carry the ox." in the context of "Act I, scene II. — (Fesserio).
 • Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 377." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Bernardo Dovizi

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.