Scipione Alberti

(fl. c. 1550-1600) was a Papal courtier from Siena, nephew of Pope Paul IV.

• I pensieri stretti e il viso sciolto will go safely over the whole world.
  • Quoted by Henry Wotton in a letter to John Milton, 13 April 1638, as published in Logan Pearsall Smith, The life and letters of Sir Henry Wotton (1907), Vol. 2, p. 381
  • Translation: "Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose..." attributed to Wotton in Vol. 1, p. 22