«Amor, ch’al cor gentil ratto s’apprende
prese costui de la bella persona
che mi fu tolta; e ‘l modo ancor m’offende.
Amor, ch’a nullo amato amar perdona,
mi prese del costui piacer sì forte,
che, come vedi, ancor non m’abbandona.
Amor condusse noi ad una morte.
Caina attende chi a vita ci spense».
(inf. V: 100-106)
Love.
Two, like Paolo and Francesca, two, like the members of a couple, two, like the tombstones that welcome them.
Two – amantes – autonomous, but complementary.
And death.
The essence of love is the inability to live without the other, it is the indissolubility of the bond: till death do us part. When not even death do you part.
Etterno Amore.
Love that resists the rip of time. Eros and Thanatos.
Rarely happens that two people swear love to each other in the deepest way. Rarely two people swear eternal love to each other.
