Translation: Who prints a book, ’tis by the critics deemed,… - Gian Carlo Passeroni

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Translation: Who prints a book, ’tis by the critics deemed,
Should know, as might an angel come from heaven,
All that has e’er been writ, or even dreamed.

Gian Carlo Passeroni

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Gian Carlo Passeroni (8 March 1713 – 26 December 1803) was an Italian poet.

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Alternative Names: Giancarlo Passeroni

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Stampano i dotti e stampan gli ignoranti
Libri diversi; e peggiorando invecchia
Il mondo, in mezzo di tanti libri e tanti.

Translation: Thou know’st not God; how, then, canst reason find
To vaunt thy doctrine? ’tis as though thou ’dst claim
To be a judge of colours, being blind.

Translation: The very meanest trade, I’m very sure,
That e’er has been, or is, or e’er will be
In all the world, is that of literature.

Translation: Who prints a book, ’tis by the critics deemed, Should know, as might an angel come from heaven, All that has e’er been writ, or even dre… - Gian Carlo Passeroni

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