18 february 2016

STORIES OF REBIRTH

#amour: Plutarco, Sull'amore
MICHELE DEL RE, IL SEGRETO DEL GIARDINO DEL SOGNO


February,the month of love! Give yourself a special moment, let yourself be carried awayby the absolute love as in great masters’ thoughts.

The funny ambiguities of love in Plutarch’s Greece: daily adventures underthe wings of the almighty Eros.

"... The same impression you have made me a little while ago: I sawyou trying to drag Eros one towards the quarters of the men, the other towardsthose of the women. But you all agreed to consider it a supreme, divine good;and I told myself that it's not surprising that this passion has so much powerand such a high regard, when even people who would have every reason to rejectit and to hold it back, wherever it comes from, rather feed it and praise itwithin themselves. "

Plutarch, On love
Ed. Adelphi (Italian edition)

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