Senonnevero
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Jump to navigationJump to search- se non è vero, è ben trovato: (Italian proverb) if it is not true, it is a happy invention → in Thomas Patrick Hughes's Dictionary of Islam ("Writing"), the author uses this phrase when referring to the castration of all the male Jews and Christians of a certain province because a single diacritical mark was omitted from the word "count" in an official letter
