Pier Angelo Manzolli

Pier Angelo Manzolli is the purported author of the book Zodiacus Vitae. He is believed to be the same person as the Neapolitan poet Marcello Stellato (Latin: Marcellus Palingenius Stellatus; c. 1500 – before 1551).

Quotes

  • Scribere fert animus multa et diversa, nec uno
    Gurgite versari semper; quo flamina ducent
    Ibimus, et nunc has, nunc illas nabimus undas;
    Ardua nunc ponti, nunc littora tuta petemus.
    Et quanquam interdum fretus ratione, latentes
    Naturæ tentabo vias, atque abdita pandam,
    Præcipuè tamen illa sequar quæcunque videntur
    Prodesse, ac sanctos mortalibus addere mores,
    Heu penitus (liceat verum mihi dicere) nostro
    Extinctos ævο.
    • My minde desireth sore to write of muche and divers thinges,
      And not alwaies to stay at one, but as the sprite me bringes.
      I go now here, now there, I swim amid the waters depe;
      Somtime I tosse the boisteous waves, sometime to shore I crepe.
      And though sometimes by reasons rule I shall assay to finde
      The secrete wayes by nature hyd, and bring them unto mynde,
      Those thynges yet wyl I folowe most, whereby a profyte shall
      Aryse, and adde a holy life, to men that be mortall.
      A lyfe alas now banisht cleane, yf I the trueth may say.
      • Zodiacus Vitae, bk. 1: Aries (tr. Barnabe Googe, 1560). Latin quoted, without translation, among the "Prelude of Mottoes" in Robert Southey's The Doctor, &c. (1835) vol. 3, pp. vi–vii
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