Vittorio AlfieriВитторио Альфиери
1 passageотрывков: 1
Each date opens its day beside the list, with these passages marked.Каждая дата открывает свой день рядом со списком, где отрывки этого автора отмечены.
4. Всем людям свойственно грешить.
Различие между людьми бывает в степени угрызений совести после греха.
4. To sin is common to all men.
Men differ in how deeply their conscience gnaws at them after the sin.
From Rosmunda · reworded by Tolstoy (more).
What changedA murderer’s plea in a play becomes a maxim; an either/or becomes a matter of degree.
Original · ItalianD’uomo è il fallir; ma dal malvagio il buono scerne il dolor del fallo.
Source text: it.wikisource.orgIn English · Charles Lloyd, 1815To fail Is human; but contrition for a fault Distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Rosmunda (tragedy, 1783), Act III, scene 1 (Almachilde to Romilda); Tragedie, vol. II (Bari: Laterza, 1946), p. 26.
A line spoken by Almachilde, the murderer of Romilda's father, pleading his remorse to her, not a maxim in Alfieri's own voice. Tolstoy lifts it out of the play and turns Alfieri's either/or (sorrow for the fault divides the good from the wicked) into a matter of degree ("the degree of remorse").