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Likely Italian - it appeared in the 14th century work the Decameron by Boccaccio.

Original - "noi abbiamo costui tratto della padella e gittatolo nel fuoco" II.1

Literal translation - "we have only taken him out of the frying-pan to toss him into the fire"

Other versions appeared in Latin and Greek often pertaining to Scylla and Charybdis, but fire and frying-pan are first recorded in the Decameron

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