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boccaderlupo) wrote2021-07-30 11:17 am
boccaderlupo) wrote2021-07-30 11:17 am
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Omnia Vincit Amor
Virgil, as imagined by Dante, speaking in Purgatorio Canto XXII (Musa translation):
"...Love,
kindled by virtue, always kindles love,
if the first flame is clearly visible..."
In Italiano:
"...Amore,
acceso di virtù, sempre altro accese,
pur che la fiamma sua paresse fore;..."
This ties back to his previous discussion on the movement of love, specifically when love takes on a positive aspect. What's left unsaid, of course, is what happens when that same love tends toward something less than virtuous, and what it then propagates (presumably, more of the same).
One day, maybe sooner, maybe later we will be no more. The material goods we’ve stored up here will waste away, the writings and artwork crumble into dust, the cities turned to waste. The one thing, perhaps, that will endure is the loves we have expressed—or failed to.
On this day of Venus, may all your loves be lit by virtue, and resonate in eternity.
Axé
"...Love,
kindled by virtue, always kindles love,
if the first flame is clearly visible..."
In Italiano:
"...Amore,
acceso di virtù, sempre altro accese,
pur che la fiamma sua paresse fore;..."
This ties back to his previous discussion on the movement of love, specifically when love takes on a positive aspect. What's left unsaid, of course, is what happens when that same love tends toward something less than virtuous, and what it then propagates (presumably, more of the same).
One day, maybe sooner, maybe later we will be no more. The material goods we’ve stored up here will waste away, the writings and artwork crumble into dust, the cities turned to waste. The one thing, perhaps, that will endure is the loves we have expressed—or failed to.
On this day of Venus, may all your loves be lit by virtue, and resonate in eternity.
Axé