Se minore è in noi l’orgoglio

Se minore è in noi l’orgoglio,
la virtù non è minore;
né per noi la via d’onore
è un incognito sentier.
 
Lungi ancor dal Campidoglio
vi son alme a queste uguali;
pur del resto de’ mortali
han gli dei qualche pensier.

Submitted by Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

Authorship

• by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, "Se minore è in noi l’orgoglio", appears in Attilio Regolo [ author's text checked 1 time]

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