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Updated: June 25, 2025

But it is not from the laughers alone that the philosophy of history is to be learned. And he who approaches this subject should carefully guard against the influence of that potent ridicule which has already misled so many excellent writers. "Ecco il fonte del riso, ed ecco il rio Che mortali perigli in se contiene: Hor qui tener a fren nostro desio, Ed esser cauti molto a noi conviene."

John Lord - Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13 : Great Writers; Dr Lord's Uncompleted Plan, Supplemented with Essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge, and Mercer Adam

Again: "Sospiro e sto in rancura Ch' io son si disioso E pauroso Mi fate penare Ma tanto m' assicura Lo suo viso amoroso E lo gioioso Riso e lo sguardare E lo parlare Di questa criatura Che per paura Mi fate penare E di morare Tant' è fina e pura Tanto è saggia e cortese Non credo che pensasse Nè distornasse Di ciò he m' impromise."

Vernon Lee - Euphorion: Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the: Renaissance - Vol. II

At times it wore an expression of seriousness, of sorrow even; and then seemed to make the very air bright with what the Italian poets so beautifully call the lampeggiar dell' angelico riso, the lightning of the angelic smile.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Hyperion

The extent of the injurious influence of this very lucrative branch of rural industry in Italy is contested by the rice-growers. But see Secondo Laura, Le Risaje, Torino, 1869; Selmi, Il Miasma Palustre, p. 89; and especially Carlo Livi, Della coltivazione del Riso in Italia, in the Nuova Antologia for July, 1871, p. 599 et seqq.

George P. Marsh - The Earth as Modified by Human Action