Florentine proverbs

The Florentine dialect or vernacular is a variety of Tuscan language, a Romance language, spoken in the Italian city of Florence and its hinterlands. Being the language spoken in the capital city of the Tuscan state, it attracted and unified all other Tuscan varieties.

B
Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis a proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father."
 * Beâz chei fîs che ân lor pnar pari a chià dal diaul .
 * English equivalent: Happy is the child whose father went to the devil.
 * "If the man who turnips cries,
 * Samuel Johnson, Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson (1786)