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Said in the 1400s
“Lì non c'è nessuna casa alta e bella che per il decoro e per l'eleganza non possa convenire a re o a principi: tutte sono regalmente maestose ed assai elevate e distano poco le une dalle altre [...] (p. 113)”
Papa Pio II (1405–1464) said by 1464 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“La roba non fa mai l'uomo beato. (atto IV, scena VI)”
Matteo Maria Boiardo (1441–1495) said by 1495 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O maister deere and Fadir reverent, Mi maister Chaucer, flour of eloquence, Mirour of fructuous entendement, O, universel fadir in science! Allas! þat þou thyn excellent prudence In þi bed mortel mightist naght by-qwethe; What eiled deth? allas! whi wolde he sle the?”
Thomas Occleve (1369–1426) said by 1426 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Line 1961; vol. 3, p. 71; translation from Roger Sherman Loomis and Rudolph Willard (eds.) Medieval English Verse and Prose in Modernized Versions (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1948) p. 351.
“I am the hailstorm that shall break the heads of those who do not take shelter.”
Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498) said by 1498 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Books: The Sword of God" in TIME (17 August 1959), a review of The Life Of Girolamo Savonarola by Roberto Ridolfi, translated by Cecil Grayson
“Quant'è bella giovinezza, | che si fugge tuttavia! | chi vuol esser lieto, sia: | di doman non c'è certezza. (da Canzona di Bacco, vv. 1-4)”
Lorenzo de' Medici (1449–1492) said by 1492 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Giovanna d'Arco - Parte I: Le battaglie (1994)”
Giovanna d'Arco (1412–1431) said by 1431 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Jacques Rivette (it)
“It is best to avoid low company, whether they come in peace or in war.”
Jami (1414–1492) said by 1492 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Through this man (Launcelot) and me (Guenever) hath all this war been wrought, and the death of the most noblest knights of the world; for through our love that we have loved together is my most noble lord slain.”
Thomas Malory (1405–1471) said by 1471 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Adunque con buona ragione ancora noi abbiamo detto non altro essere le morti, sì dei congiunti e degli amici, e sì le nostre proprie, se non peregrinazioni della più degna parte dell'uomo ad un qualunque luogo a lei accomodato, e separazioni degli uni dagli altri per alcun tempo solamente, e non già in perpetuo. (p. 202)”
Giorgio Gemisto Pletone (1355–1452) said by 1452 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So was hire joly whistle wel ywette.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Quin eo deventum est ut iam (proh dolor!) non existimentur sapientes nisi qui mercennarium faciunt studium sapientiae.”
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494) said by 1494 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Folles amours font le gens bestes: Salmon en ydolatria, Samson en perdit ses lunettes. Bien est eureux qui riens n'y a!”
François Villon (1431–1463) said by 1463 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Io fui in San Lorenzo, per vedere | la testa del Battista e la scodella, | ch'è di smeraldo e vale un grande avere. (libro III, cap. V, vv. 106-108; 1952, p. 199)”
Fazio degli Uberti (1305–1400) said by 1400 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sia benedetta tu sempre da Dio: | quando farai contento lo cor mio? (da Sia benedetto il giorno che nascesti)”
Leonardo Giustinian (1388–1446) said by 1446 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Qui ne sait dissimuler, ne sait régner.”
Louis XI (1423–1483) said by 1483 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now was there maid fast by the touris wall A gardyn fair, and in the corneris set Ane herber grene with wandis long and small Railit about; and so with treis set Was all the place, and hawthorn hegis knet.”
James I of Scotland (1394–1437) said by 1437 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“La notte è lunga a chi non può dormire, | ma ancora è breve a chi contento giace [...].”
Agnolo Poliziano (1454–1494) said by 1494 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Adam akay ta byun byun war — Ak layi mukhta ta ak layi na har Tsandun ti dar, arkhor ti dar Arkhor asi na barkhurdar.”
Nund Rishi (1378–1439) said by 1439 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Even in one’s sleep, it is dreams of this world one sees, and of no other; just as there is no dawning here that brings true awakening.”
Shotetsu (1381–1459) said by 1459 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dream", Unforgotten Dreams: Poems by the Zen Monk Shōtetsu, 1997, edited and translated by Steven D. Carter, page 34
“God is my witness that I have never taught or preached that which false witnesses have testified against me. He knows that the great object of all my preaching and writing was to convert men from sin. In the truth of that gospel which hitherto I have written, taught and preached, I now joyfully die.”
Jan Hus (1370–1415) first seen 1415 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jan Hus (1415); quoted in: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, Volume 12, 1891, p. 401
“For a persistent and continued ascent to [the Principle and Source of] life is the constituent element of increased happiness.”
Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464) said by 1464 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Non esiste alcuna scienza che possa attestare meglio la divinità di Cristo che la magia e la cabala.”
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494) said by 1494 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You say that you are my judge. I do not know if you are! But I tell you that you must take good care not to judge me wrongly, because you will put yourself in great danger. I warn you, so that if God punishes you for it, I would have done my duty by telling you!”
Joan of Arc (1412–1431) first seen 1431 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jeanne's warning to Bishop Cauchon (15 March 1431)
“In the morning make thy resolves, and in the evening inquire into thy life, how thou hast sped to-day in word, deed, and thought;”
Thomas à Kempis (1379–1471) said by 1471 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source