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Giovanni Rucellai

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Quest’ oltraggio ? fatto ai Dei,
I quai, se non han cura di se stessi,
Non vi curate voi di vendicarli.
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Act V (Coro).
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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.
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Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 403.

 
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