"The poet I am waiting for, the poet who is sensitive to the beauty of feelings and ideas as much as to physical beauty, will be inspired by the great love.

He won't have different attitudes that need to be reconciled with one another, it shall be impossible for him to separate his love from his work, where he shall hide discreetly - like a shadow in the middle of an open plain - an exquisite feminine soul. She shall give to the man's work that finesse which does not diminish greatness, that fragrance that can live beside simplicity. Without disclosing her name, the poet will dedicate to her that glory that mankind shall concede to him. She will rejoice about it, aware that she merited it, since she had developed in him that part of the divine that inhabits his soul, she had helped him to rise promptly from his falls, she will be the living ideal of his mission as poet, forbidding any temptation of anything vile, of anything base."

ANTONIO FOGAZZARO, from "The Discourses", Paris, 1898.

"Amor che a nullo amato amar perdona'

DANTE ALIGHIERI, from "The Divine Comedy".

For her