"See Naples and Die" (1741, 1788 in Italian)

[Joel S. Berson]

At 6/17/2007 03:08 AM, you wrote:
>The Yale Book of Quotations doesn't appear to have "see Naples and die."  The
>quote has been attributed to Goethe (1780s), but may come from Domenico
>Balestrieri (1714-1780).
>...
>Can anyone make sense of these Google Books cites?

If you mean identifying the dates from the
titles, why don't you try an on-line university library catalog?
Joel

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>_Lagrime in morte di un gatto [poems by various authors, ed.  by D.
>Balestrieri - Page 51_
>(http://books.google.com/books?id=WG8CAAAAQAAJ&q="VEDI+NAPOLI+E+POI+MORI"+date:1600
>-1850&dq="VEDI+NAPOLI+E+POI+MORI"+date:1600-1850&num=100&ie=ISO-8859-1)
>by Lacrime - 1741
>Vedi Napoli,  e poi mori, Se pò digh con ...
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>_Collezione completa delle commedie del signor Carlo Goldoni  - Page 105_
>(http://books.google.com/books?id=3XsNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA105&dq="Vedi+Napoli+e+poi+muor
>i"+date:1500-1850&num=100&ie=ISO-8859-1)
>by  Carlo Goldoni - 1788
>Vedi Napoli , e poi muori. Leand.  ...
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