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Boccaccio is a 1940 Italian operetta film directed by Marcello Albani and starring Clara Calamai, Osvaldo Valenti and Silvana Jachino. It is based on the 1879 operetta Boccaccio by Franz von Suppé. It was made at the Scalera Studios in Rome.

Notable quotes

“Se medesimi esaltando con parole da fare per istomacaggine le pietre saltar del muro e fuggirsi.”
— They boosted themselves with such nauseating self-praise as to make the stones jump out of the walls and flee.
“Natural ragione è di ciascuno che ci nasce, la sua vita, quanto può, aiutare e conservare e difendere.”
— Every person born into this world has a natural right to sustain, preserve, and defend his own life to the best of his ability.
“La gente è più acconcia a credere il male che il bene.”
— People are more inclined to believe in bad intentions than in good ones.
“Una boccuccia piccolina, le cui labbra parevan due rubinetti.”
— A sweet little mouth with lips like rubies.
“Essere la natura de' motti cotale, che essi come la pecora morde deono cosi mordere l'uditore, e non come 'l cane: percio che, se come cane mordesse il motto, non sarebbe motto, ma villania.”
— The nature of wit is such that its bite must be like that of a sheep rather than a dog, for if it were to bite the listener like a dog, it would no longer be wit but abuse.
“Leggiadre donne, infra molte bianche colombe aggiugne più di bellezza uno nero corvo, che non farebbe un candido cigno.”
— Charming ladies, the beauty of a flock of white doves is better enhanced by a black crow than by a pure white swan.

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