Francesco Berni Quotes

To lose the thing we love is greater pain
Than to desire and never to obtain.

Che lasciar quel che s'ama, e peggio assai
Che disiarlo, e non averlo mai.

Think not that aught the fury can surpass
Of woman, when she feels that she is scorned.

Non crediate che sia maggiore sdegno,
Che quel di donna quando e dispregiata.

A king that would to do his duty try,
Is steward, truly, and not sovereign
Of those who bow to his authority.

Un re, se vuole il suo debito fare,
Non e re veramente, ma fattore
Del popol che gli e dato a governare.

De la necessita virtu facendo.

For judgment appertains to God alone.

Che il far giudicio appartien solo a Dio.

Mention made on the Tarocchi in his Capitolo del Gioco della Primiera col Comento di messer Pietropaulo da San Chirico (1526).

Let him look to it, who is pleased with the game of Tarocco, that the only signification of this word Tarocco, is stupid, foolish, simple, fit only to be used by Bakers, Coblers, and the vulgar, to play at most for the fourth part of a Carlino, at Tarocchi, or at Trionfi, or any Sminckiate whatever: which in every way signifies only foolery and idleness, feasting the eye with the Sun, and the Moon, and the twelve (signs) as children do.