But from a human point of view there always can happen an even more disastrous kind of disaster, that’s when Salieri wants to author Mozart’s music.
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Quem recitas meus est, o Fidentine, libellus:
sed male cum recitas, incipit esse tuus. The book that you recite from, Fidentinus, is my own. But when you read it badly, it belongs to you alone. I versi che tu reciti, o Fidentino, son miei; ma siccome li reciti male, ecco diventano tuoi. |
Martial, Epigrams, Book 1, XXXVIII
English translation by Susan McLean
Italian translation by Holden Caulfield
English translation by Susan McLean
Italian translation by Holden Caulfield
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