Giovanni Paolo Marana

Giovanni Paolo Marana or sometimes Jean-Paul Marana (1642 – 1693) was a Genoese writer of both fiction and non-fiction, best remembered for his conviction for failing to reveal a conspiracy to cede the Genoese town of Savona to the Duchy of Savoy. Attributed Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy thumb|A woman never commands a man, unless he be a fool, but by her obedience. Doubtless he needed not your fuming Lectures, and more Silent Discipline of Powts. There was no Occasion to keep him half a Moon in Paroxysms of Melancholy and Grief. You Women have Ways by your Selves, unintelligible to our Sex. Your Windings and Turnings are intricate as those of Serpents. Dædalus himself, were he now alive, though once the Glory of Labyrinth-Makers, yet wou'd be puzzl'd to trace your Sex, in all your secret, wild, unknown Meanders. Ye are all the very changeable Things of the Earth. No body knows what to make of ye. A Woman never commands a Man, unless he be a Fool, but by her Obedience. A good Woman consults her Husband's Pleasure in all Things. Vol. 8 (1694) bk. 3, ep. 4: "To Dalimalched, the Widow of Pesteli Hali, his Brother, Master of the Customs, and Superintendent of the Arsenal at Constantinople" (27 October 1678) External links Category:1642 births Category:1693 deaths Category:Authors from Italy Category:People from Genoa