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Niccolo Forteguerri

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(Ma) l’animo gentile
gentil sempre pon mente
Al buon cuor di chi d?, non al presente.
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XXX, 107.
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Translation: The noble soul aye to the gift far less Gives heed, than to the giver’s kindliness.
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Translation reported in Harbottle’s Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 332.

 
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