Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.
Che quant' era più ornata, era più brutta.
Original text (Italian)
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Compare | Beauty when most unclothed is clothed best. | Phineas Fletcher, Sicelides (1614), Act II, scene iv | In naked beauty more adorned,
More lovely than Pandora. | John Milton, Paradise Lost (1674), Book IV, line 713 | For Loveliness
Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,
But is, when unadorned, adorned the most. | James Thomson, The Seasons, "Autumn" (1730), line 204