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Muratori, in 1696, calls it, in his "Annals of Italy," "_Inventione dell 'amara malizia per succiare il sangue dei malaccorti giuocatori_."
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 Various
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Such _malizia_ (cleverness) is none the more respectable for being childishly transparent.
Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910
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He toiled through the flaming hours, and what he lacked in strength was made up in the craftiness, _malizia, _ born of long love of the soil.
Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910
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No ay para tanta malizia -- Justizia ni pa tantos agrauios -- labios ni para tantas locuras -- Curas todas estas desuenturas los Cristianos Padezemos
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(The anonymous biographer of Rienzi makes the following just remark: "Sono li tedeschi, come discendon de la Alemagna, semplici, puri, senza fraude, come si allocano tra 'taliani, diventano mastri coduti, viziosi, che sentono ogni malizia."
Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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