Translation: This is an insult offered to the Gods, And if … - Giovanni di Bernardo Rucellai

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Translation: This is an insult offered to the Gods,
And if the Gods themselves make light of it.
It is not in your hands that vengeance lies.

Giovanni di Bernardo Rucellai

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Giovanni di Bernardo Rucellai (20 October 1475 – 3 April 1525) was an Italian writer and poet, and the grandson of the Rucellai family of wool-dyers turned bankers.

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Alternative Names: Giovanni Rucellai • Giovanni Rucellai II

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Translation: The world’s great soul
Doth stand like charioteer, and this blind mass
Pervading, doth control the starry spheres.

Translation: Great toil is oft by trifling theme entailed,
But whoso clearly sets it forth and well,
No trifling fruit he from his skill doth cull.

La giusta impresa
Sempre accompagna il valor delle stelle.

Translation: This is an insult offered to the Gods, And if the Gods themselves make light of it. It is not in your hands that vengeance lies. - Giovanni di Bernardo Rucellai

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