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Francesca e Paolo...

For Macro Mondays - Amore.

 

"Noi leggiavamo un giorno per diletto

di Lancialotto come amor lo strinse;

soli eravamo e sanza alcun sospetto.

 

Per più fiate li occhi ci sospinse

quella lettura, e scolorocci il viso;

ma solo un punto fu quel che ci vinse.

 

Quando leggemmo il disiato riso

esser basciato da cotanto amante,

questi, che mai da me non fia diviso,

 

la bocca mi basciò tutto tremante.

Galeotto fu 'l libro e chi lo scrisse:

quel giorno più non vi leggemmo avante."

- Dante Inferno Canto 5

 

 

"One day, for pleasure,

We read of Lancelot, by love constrained:

Alone, suspecting nothing, at our leisure.

 

Sometimes at what we read our glances joined,

Looking from the book each to the other's eyes,

And then the color in our faces drained.

 

But one particular moment alone it was

Defeated us: the longed-for smile, it said,

Was kissed by that most noble lover: at this,

 

This one, who now will never leave my side,

Kissed my mouth, trembling. A Galeotto, that book!

And so was he who wrote it; That day we read no further."

-Translation by Robert Pinsky

 

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