Quote of the day
There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.
Giovanni Battista Lorenzi

Born: 1721
Died: 1807 (aged 86)
Bio: Giovanni Battista Lorenzi was an Italian librettist. He was born and died in (Naples, and was a friend of Giovanni Paisiello, with whom he collaborated on numerous operas.