Franco Sacchetti

thumb|The understanding of women is keener and more quick than that of men. Franco Sacchetti (1332 – August 1400) was an Italian poet and novelist. Quotes Il Trecentonovelle (1399) thumb|As I live by war, you live by alms. — Monsignore, Dio vi dia pace.E quelli subito risponde:— Dio vi tolga la vostra elemosina.Li frati, quasi spaventati, dissono:— Signore, perché ci dite voi cosí?Disse messer Giovanni:— Anzi voi perché dite voi cosí a me?Dissono i frati:— Noi credevamo dire bene.E messer Giovanni rispose:— Come credete dir bene che venite a me, e dite che Dio mi facci morir di fame? non sapete voi che io vivo di guerra, e la pace mi disfarebbe? e cosí come io vivo di guerra, cosí voi vivete di lemosina; sí che la risposta che io v’ho fatta è stata simile alla vostra salutazione. "Monsignore, God grant you peace," said the monks."And may God take away your alms," Hawkwood responded immediately."Lord, why do you speak to us this way?" asked the frightened monks."Indeed, because you spoke thus to me," replied John."We thought we spoke well," said the monks."How can you think you spoke well," said Hawkwood, "when you approach me and say that God should let me die of hunger? Don’t you know that I live from war and peace would destroy me? And as I live by war, you live by alms. So that the answer I gave you is the same as your greeting." Novella 181. Excerpt translated and quoted by William Caferro, John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy (Johns Hopkins UP, 2006), p. 1 Attributed The understanding of women is keener and more quick than that of men. Reported in Isidoro Del Lungo, Women of Florence, translated from the Italian by Mary C. Steegmann (London: Chatto and Windus, 1907), p. xxiv External links Category:1332 births Category:1400 deaths Category:Novelists from Italy Category:Poets from Italy Category:People from Florence