Pietro Aretino Quotes
1492–1556 Italy
Pietro Aretino (20 April 1492 – 21 October 1556) was an Italian author, playwright, poet and satirist.
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Yes, let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.
He never saw a maiden without discovering in her features a touch of sensuality.
I love you and, because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we! It seems to me that that which is given us by nature for our own preservation ought to be worn round the neck as a pendant and in the hat for a medal.
Edward Hutton (1922)
He who has not been at a tavern knows not what a paradise it is. O holy tavern! O miraculous tavern!—holy, because no carking cares are there, nor weariness, nor pain; and miraculous, because of the spits, which themselves turn round and round!