Il mondo va invecchiando e peggiorando di mano in mano.
• Translation: The world grows older and grows worse from generation to generation." - Meaning and context.">
Act I., Scene I. — (Vicenzo).
 • Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 317.
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Il mondo va invecchiando e peggiorando di mano in mano.
• Translation: The world grows older and grows worse from generation to generation.

— Alessandro Piccolomini

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Il mondo va invecchiando e peggiorando di mano in mano.
• Translation: The world grows older and grows worse from generation to generation." in the context of "Act I., Scene I. — (Vicenzo).
 • Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 317." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Alessandro Piccolomini

About Alessandro Piccolomini

Alessandro Piccolomini (13 June 1508 – 12 March 1579) was an Italian humanist and philosopher from Siena, who promoted the popularization in the vernacular of Latin and Greek scientific and philosophical treatises.