Giovanni Battista Guarini

Che mai
Non v'avere ò provate, ò possedute.

Giovanni Battista Guarini (December 10, 1538 – October 7, 1612) was an Italian poet, dramatist, and diplomat.

Sourced

• Altera figlia
  Di quel monarca a cui
  Nè anco, quando annotta, il Sol tramonta.
  • The proud daughter of that monarch to whom when it grows dark [elsewhere] the sun never sets.
  • Il pastor fido (1590). On the marriage of the Duke of Savoy with Catherine of Austria.

• Che mai
  Non v'avere ò provate, ò possedute.

  Far worse it is
  To lose than never to have tasted bliss.

  • Il pastor fido (1590).

External links

• Works by Giovanni Battista Guarini at Project Gutenberg