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The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy

Note 909 — Chapter VII · DOMESTIC ECONOMY.

S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation

But the taste was not universal. J. A. Campanus (Epist. iv. 4) writes vigorously against country life. He admits: ‘Ego si rusticus natus non essem, facile tangerer voluptate;’ but since he was born a peasant, ‘quod tibi deliciae, mihi satietas est.’

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