How beautiful is youth, that is always slipping away! Whoever wants…

How beautiful is youth, that is always slipping away! Whoever wants to be happy, let him be so: of tomorrow there's no knowing.

In the original Italian

Quanto e bella giovinezza Che si fugge tuttavia! Chi vuol esser lieto sia: Di doman non ci e certezza.

Lorenzo de Medici

1490

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1490

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Lorenzo de Medici

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Medici, Lorenzo. Il trionfo di Bacco e Arianna [The Triumph of Bacchus and Arianna]. c. 1490.

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