Italian Author Quotes

Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.

Woman over money is like the sun upon ice, which is all the time: melting and consuming it.

Bernardo Dovizi

Everyone tends to remember the past with greater fervor as the present gains greater importance.

When the ground is soft
It may be worked with any kind of tool.

Giovanni Maria Cecchi

Free is the vote, the right inviolate,
But victory falls to him whose aim is straight.

Francesco Dall'Ongaro

It is better to wear rags in honesty than brocade in dishonor.

The man of mark is never appreciated, either in his lifetime or in his own country.

Camillo Federici

That blood which thou hast spill'd, should join you closely in an eternal bond.

Vittorio Alfieri

The ape, vilest of beast, how like us!

In Latin: Simia, quam similis, turpissima bestia, nobis!

Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts.

Making art means not only using languages, but also creating new ones. To do this, new tools are indispensable. Even returning to more traditional languages such as linear poetry or narration, after being enriched by the experience of hypertext, hypermedia and multimedia, allows us to rethink the older forms of expression and transfer the lessons of the new media into even the more traditional modalities of language, such as narrative, for example.

Caterina Davinio

What will the stream become in its lengthened course, if it be so turbid at its source?

Wise men and fools alike, in varying style,
Rush into print, and still, midst books galore,
The world grows ever older and more vile.

Giancarlo Passeroni