malizia

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

Such _malizia_ (cleverness) is none the more respectable for being childishly transparent.

Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

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

No ay para tanta malizia -- Justizia ni pa tantos agrauios -- labios ni para tantas locuras -- Curas todas estas desuenturas los Cristianos Padezemos

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXVI, 1636 James Alexander Robertson 1906

(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