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"english": "And it is called chaste tree because, by repressing lust, makes the one that carries it chaste, like the lamb.",
"ref": "13ᵗʰ c., “Cap. XXXV: Dell'Agnocasto”, in Trattato dell'agricoltura [Treatise On Agriculture], translation of Opus ruralium commodorum libri XII by Pietro De' Crescenzi, published 1605, page 269",
"text": "E chiamasi agnocasto, perocchè reprimendo la lussuria, rende casto colui, che sopra il porta, come l'agnello.",
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"english": "People judge others based on themselves: the fornicator believes no one is chaste",
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"ref": "c. 1307, Dante Alighieri, “Trattato quarto, Capitolo 9 [Fourth Treatise, Chapter 9]”, in Convivio [The Banquet], Florence: Le Monnier, published 1964",
"text": "Sono anche operazioni che la nostra [ragione] considera ne l’atto de la volontade, sì come offendere e giovare, sì come star fermo e fuggire a la battaglia, sì come stare casto e lussuriare",
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"english": "I, while you were prisoner of the enemy, kept my mind and body pure. Do you, now free, wish to lose the beautiful virginity you kept while imprisoned?",
"ref": "1581, Torquato Tasso, “Canto quinto [Fifth Canto]”, in Gerusalemme liberata [Jerusalem Delivered], Erasmo Viotti, page 135",
"text": "Io: mentre ch'eri de' nimici ancella:Ti conservai la mente, e i membri casti;E tu, libera, hor vuoi perder la bellaVirginità, ch'in prigionia guardasti?",
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"english": "She would resemble Thalia if she took lyre in hand, Minerva, if she held a spear; if she had a bow in hand and quiver at her side, you would swear she was chaste Diana.",
"ref": "1475, Angelo Poliziano, “Libro I”, in Stanze de messer Angelo Politiano cominciate per la giostra del magnifico Giuliano di Pietro de Medici, collected in Poesie Italiane by Saverio Orlando, Bologna: Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli, published 1988, section 46",
"text": "Sembra Talia se in man prende la cetra,sembra Minerva se in man prende l’asta;se l’arco ha in mano, al fianco la faretra,giurar potrai che sia Diana casta.",
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"english": "Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Water, which is very useful and humble and precious and chaste.",
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"text": "Oh bei costumi semplici,Là dove l'oro invan suoi strali avventa!Là dove i padri languidiPura pietade filial sostenta.Dove a modesta vergineCasti imenei marito amante danno;Dove de' figli il numeroMai non si ascrive il genitore a danno.",
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"ref": "1581, “Libro V [Book 5]”, in Annibale Caro, transl., Eneide [Aeneid], Florence: Leonardo Ciardetti, translation of Aeneis by Virgil, published 1827, pages 230–231",
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"english": "I, while you were prisoner of the enemy, kept my mind and body pure. Do you, now free, wish to lose the beautiful virginity you kept while imprisoned?",
"ref": "1581, Torquato Tasso, “Canto quinto [Fifth Canto]”, in Gerusalemme liberata [Jerusalem Delivered], Erasmo Viotti, page 135",
"text": "Io: mentre ch'eri de' nimici ancella:Ti conservai la mente, e i membri casti;E tu, libera, hor vuoi perder la bellaVirginità, ch'in prigionia guardasti?",
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"text": "Sembra Talia se in man prende la cetra,sembra Minerva se in man prende l’asta;se l’arco ha in mano, al fianco la faretra,giurar potrai che sia Diana casta.",
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"ref": "1799, Vittorio Alfieri, “Ode - 14 decembre 1792”, in Misogallo [The French-Hater], London, page 77",
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