Francesco Sansovino

thumb|right Francesco Tatti da Sansovino (1521–1586) was a versatile Italian scholar and man of letters, also known as a publisher. Sourced Concetti Politici (1578) Quella guerra è giusta ch’ è necessaria : e quelle armi sono pie, nelle quali non resta altra speranza che nelle dette armi. XLL. Translation: That war is just which is necessary, and those arms are righteous wherein reposes no other hope save in the arms themselves. Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 403. Non hanno gli huomini maggior nimico che la troppa prosperità, perchè gli fa impotenti di se medesimi, licentiosi et arditi al male, e cupidi di turbare il ben proprio con cose nuove. CCLXI. Translation: Men have no greater enemy than excessive prosperity, for it destroys their mastery over themselves and makes them licentious and vicious, with a hankering after novelties destructive of their own well-being. Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 376. Gli Ambasciadori sono gli occhi e gli orecchi de gli stati. CCLXXVI. Translation: Ambassadors are the eyes and ears of States. Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 305. External links Historia universale dell'origine et imperio de'Turchi: Con le guerre successe in Persia, in Ongaria, in Transilvania, Valachia, sino l'anno 1600 (1600) Venetia, città nobilissima, et singolare, Descritta in XIIII. libri (1581) (link to 1663 ed.) Category:1586 deaths Category:People from Italy Category:Authors