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Federico De Roberto

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“We went alone, outside the Cave, to Pozzuoli, to Baja.... What a heaven! What a sea... Do you know the grove behind Lake Lucrino, on the way to the Sibyl's cave? The land is sloping; You proceed at random, pushing aside the branches that touch your face. Through the foliage of the chestnut grove filters a fantastic, féerie-like green light; It seems to swim in the middle of the fluid emerald.... On May 20th... Era de maggio e te cadeano 'nzino A schiocche a schiocche le cerase rosse..... The redheads, the sweets, the fresh ciriegie were her lips....”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“letters anonymous are a providence. In view of fundamental human cowardice, it is providential that one can make one thing known or give advice without risking anything.”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Don't you know what kind of love I love? I love as the sea loves the shore: softly and furiously!”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Think that love, hatred, ambition, envy, all the strongest passions end before us, and that, when all is over, one thing remains: the satisfaction of the duty accomplished....”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I saw many women gathered in some place, at the theatre, for example, or at the walk, I wondered; "Who would you love?" – And with one hand on my conscience, I answered, "All of them, except the old ones, the hunchbacks and the ugly ones.”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you want to succeed with women, don't make them laugh.”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“«[...] and some well-informed people assured us that once, in the early days of the new government, he [the duke] had uttered a very significant phrase, revealing the ancient viceregal greed, the rapacity of the ancient Uzeda: 'Now that Italy is done, we must mind our own business...'" (Part Two, Chapter VIII)”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“After The Betrothed, the greatest novel in Italian literature. (Leonardo Sciascia)”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The artist feels lonely. Singular and aristocratic, he lives uneasily in the midst of a democratic and uniform society. He feels hated by it as useless, as haughty; and despises it. Therefore, his works are not addressed to the majority, but to the few initiated.”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You have to be yourself to create new values, to shape reality to your talent. We must be others, on the weak, on the powerless, on those who are incapable of living.”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Not peace, rest, quiet will be esteemed; but the struggle is the war; The war is a beneficent war, a war that is an indication of strength, of health, of exuberance.”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You don't know how to command anymore; those few who wield a timid power, almost apologize for it; They call themselves the first servants of the country, the instruments of the common good. One does not dare to chastise; Criminals are more emotional than victims.”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To notice the faults of others we must have them a little too....”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We must do to others what we would have them do to us.”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Max Nordau was such a fervent follower of Lombroso, that he extended the theory beyond the master's intentions, to the point of considering most of the artistic geniuses universally admired in our day as the product of degeneration.”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Praise tickles, and carelessness humbles. Is this a pathological symptom, or is it not rather the natural play of the passions, the eternal law of human nature?”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The utopians want all men to be equally rich or well-off, this equality in wealth or comfort, is the promise with which they entice the workers; For if the workers knew that the result of the agitation would be, as we have seen, universal poverty and mediocrity, they would not listen to them.”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Country? With a big P? Do you still believe it? My dear, if you say, who it is, where it is, what it does, where it can be found, I will be grateful. The country is you and I, and the usher who stands in the anteroom, and the young lady who copies letters from there. The country is everyone, which means no one. And our ideas are just as good as those of our adversaries.”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thought is like the Protheus of the fable, which changes its aspect incessantly, or rather, since there is not a single and fixed thought, but an infinite series of thoughts, inconstant, contradictory, no one can with one word define a man exactly; No man can define himself exactly.”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Progress is the synthesis of all human history; Those who have leafed through its immortal books have read this word on every page.”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The nobility and wealth that one acquires by one's own work no one hates them, because everyone hopes for them...”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Wealth, absolute or relative, cannot belong to everyone; it is impossible for those who take part in the game of life to win all, and for the winnings to be equal; The gamblers know this, but before the cards are dealt, before the die is cast, they are all equally animated and comforted by hope, and the loser, if he feels a human sense of spite, nevertheless accepts the necessity of fate, and awaits revenge.”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Today, say the socialists, those who work from morning to night struggle for life, while those who do nothing swim in plenty; Tomorrow those who produce little as well as those who produce much will swim in abundance: injustice for injustice's sake, who will not prefer the latter to the former?”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now that [[Italy] is done, Italian kitchens should be unified!" «An arduous undertaking. They will be able to federate; if so!”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“According to Spencer, words are like tokens: the value of these and the meaning of those depend on the general convention.”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If Massimo Taparelli D'Azeglio, after having cried out: Out with the foreigner, was seized with the doubt of whether he was a foreigner, the Prince of Francalanza was exempt from such scruples.”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Federico de Roberto, Al rombo del cannone, Treves, C.E.1919.”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Federico de Roberto, Catania, Italian Institute of Graphic Arts, C.E.1907.”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Federico de Roberto, Documenti umani, Fratelli Treves Editori, Milan, C.E.1888.”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Federico de Roberto, Ermanno Raeli, Libreria ed. Galli, Milan, C.E.1889.”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Federico de Roberto, Gli amori, Galli, C.E.1898.”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Federico de Roberto, I Viceré, Garzanti, Milano, C.E.1959.”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Federico de Roberto, I Viceré, preface by Sergio Campailla, BEN, C.E.1995.”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Federico de Roberto, Il colore del tempo, R. Sandron, Milano-Palermo, C.E.1900.”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Federico de Roberto, L'arte, Fratelli Bocca, C.E.1901.”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Federico de Roberto, L'Imperio, Oscar Mondadori, Milan C.E.1981.”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Federico de Roberto, La morte dell'amore, publisher Maia, Milan, C.E.1928.”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Federico de Roberto, La paura, in Romanzi, novelle e saggi, edited by Carlo A. Madrignani, Collezione I Meridiani, IV edizione, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Milan, C.E.1998. ISBN 88-04-21998-2”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Federico de Roberto, La sorte, Libreria editrice Galli, C.E.1891.”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Federico de Roberto, Leopardi, Treves, 1921.”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Federico de Roberto, Processi verbali, Sellerio Editore, Palermo, C.E.1990.”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Federico de Roberto, Spasimo, Galli Publishing House, C.E.1897.”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“These Viceroys are sculpted and struck one by one: they are arrogant and ignorant, in the past they knew how to sign at most, Donna Ferdinanda holds like a gospel the bolsa prose of the Teatro genologico di Sicilia of Mugnòs, Don Eugenio conceives a Herald Sicolo with ridiculous innovations of spelling and phonetics, Ferdinand then – let alone the Fool! – he is struck by the reading of Robinson Crusoe, which the rhetorical Don Cono Canalà has given him, and the new deputy Duke of Oragua is unable to articulate his motto looking out from the balcony in front of the crowd that cheers him. Only one thing endures, in the collapse of all values and in the universal conflict of interests: the common passion for things, the pride of belonging to a caste and a clan. (Sergio Campailla)”
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“The Monarchy made Italy." "Is she alone, alone? And how did he do it? Sponte or pushes? With victories, or by dint of defeats? And what is this Italy of his? Where is the glory, the laurel and the iron that your Leopardi was looking for sixty years ago? Do you know about it? We are the last of the great nations, an inflated frog on the verge of cracking, like the one in the fairy tale. Theoretically, philosophically, you will not tell me that the reign of one man over all his fellows is the ideal. The ideal, if you are an idealist, is quite the opposite, it is the social republic, equality and the agreement of all. Utopia is fine, and even those who support it know it; but a generous utopia, not unpleasant resignation, like ours. Generous and dangerous, you mean? Go there, for the world has not fallen and will not fall, no matter how many reforms and revolutions are made...”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“«Ladies and gentlemen, once upon a time there was a critic who, affirming with extraordinary warmth the superiority of [[Torquato Tasso]'s Gerusalemme liberata over [[Ludovico Ariosto]|Lodovico Ariosto]], engaged in many quarrels with people who did not think as he did, and thus sustained one after the other no less than fourteen fortunate duels; but on the fifteenth, he fell at last with his chest pierced by the enemy's blade. Then the godfathers, who were very afflicted and were waiting to collect his last wishes, heard him come out in this supreme confession: "And to say that I have not yet read either Orlando furioso or Gerusalemme liberata....”
Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source