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When we were going up the steps to the Strand he again objected, and quoted Dante's famous lines: "Tu proverai si come sa di sale Lo pane altrui; e com' è duro calle Lo scendere e 'l salir per l'altrui scale." The impression made by Oscar that evening was not only of self-indulgence but of over-confidence. I could not imagine what had given him this insolent self-complacence.
When we were going up the steps to the Strand he again objected, and quoted Dante's famous lines: "Tu proverai si come sa di sale Lo pane altrui; e com' e duro calle Lo scendere e 'l salir per l'altrui scale." The impression made by Oscar that evening was not only of self-indulgence but of over-confidence. I could not imagine what had given him this insolent self- complacence.
"come sa di sale Lo pane altrui, e come è duro calle Lo scendere e il salir per l'altrui scale." It was a time ignorant of the simplest comfort, but debauched with the vices of luxury; in which cities repressed the license of their people by laws regulating the length of women's gowns and the outlays at weddings and funerals.
When we read it, we cannot help remembering the language of another exile, who while he tells us Come sa di sale Lo pane altrui, e com' è duro calle Lo scendere e 'l salir per l' altrui scale can yet refuse the advances of his factious city thus: 'If Florence cannot be entered honorably, I will never set foot within her walls. And what?
Macchiavelli's account of him is, that he was about to marry a young lady of the Amidei family, when a widow of one of the Donati, who had designed her own daughter for him, contrived that he should see her; the consequence of which was, that he broke his engagement, and was assassinated. Tu proverai sì come sa di sale Lo pane altrui, e com'è duro calle Lo scendere e 'l salir per l'altrui scale.
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