Francesco Berni quotes
Francesco Berni was an Italian poet renowned for his satirical and burlesque writing style. His works notably transformed the genre of Italian comic poetry. He became famous for his wit, humor, and refinement of the “bernesque” poetic form. Here are 31 of his quotes:
Let him look to it, who is pleased with the game of Tarocco, that the only signification of this word Tarocco, is stupid, foolish, simple, fit only to be used by Bakers, Coblers, and the vulgar, to play at most for the fourth part of a Carlino, at Tarocchi, or at Trionfi, or any Sminckiate whatever: which in every way signifies only foolery and idleness, feasting the eye with the Sun, and the Moon, and the twelve (signs) as children do.
Francesco Berni
