poet
of the 16th century, best known for his madrigal
s.
Very little is known about his early life. Probably born in Ferrara
, he became presbyter
("canonico") at the Congregazione di S Giorgio d'Alga in Venice
, and author of sacred poems as well as secular texts for libretto
s. One of his madrigals, Sí ch'io vorrei morire, was set to music by Claudio Monteverdi
in his Fourth Book of Madrigals.
In the Dizionario Storico degli Uomini Ferraresi by author Luigi Ughi, the entry for Maurizio Moro reads: "He was also a man of erudition and a good Italian poet who lived in the second half of the 16th century.
The great advantage of abstinence education is that it introduces teenagers to hypocrisy at an early age.
Let the fundamentalist Christians raise losers. I want my teenagers to have as much sex as they can possibly get.
If God wanted teenagers to be abstinent, puberty would begin at twenty.
Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
Self denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
Usez, n'abusez point […] L'abstinence ou l'excès ne fit jamais d'heureux.