Translation: As when you melons in the market buy. You’ll c… - Pietro Nelli

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Translation: As when you melons in the market buy.
You’ll cut a hundred, and, amongst the pile,
’Tis hard if you two good ones shall espy.
So, in our day, of all the tongues we deem,
From outward showing, free from every guile,
But two per cent, are really what they seem.

Pietro Nelli

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Pietro Nelli (29 June 1672 – 1740) was an Italian poet and painter.

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Native Name: Pietro Antonio Nelli

Alternative Names: Pietro II Nelli

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Niccolò Forteguerri Robert Burton Stefano Guazzo Francesco Dall'Ongaro George Herbert

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Translation: A litigant to winning so devotes his energies
That he never gives his neighbours or himself a moment’s rest,
But for every other pleasure he has neither ears nor eyes.

Come a comprar in piazza il poponi,
Ne tagliarete cento e fra cotanti
A pena due ne treverete bueni,
Così hoggidì, fra lingue tante e tante
Che fanno bel veder di fuora via
Due per cento rispendene al sembiante.

Translation: When he mixes a salad, the Devil, I’ve heard.
Three ingredients uses; first advocates’ tongues.
Next notaries’ fingers; I’ll not name the third.

Translation: As when you melons in the market buy. You’ll cut a hundred, and, amongst the pile, ’Tis hard if you two good ones shall espy. So, in our… - Pietro Nelli

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