Who truly loves, loves at first sight
fiction
edward w Pritchard
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Beatrice had the look
fiction
edward w pritchard
Beatrice had the look. Walking as an eight year old not on a runway in Milan but on the crowded streets of Florence Beatrice captured Dante's imagination and inspired a million future lovers through his promotion of courtly love. Dante seldom comments on her physical appearance preferring to keep it mystical, about Beatrice's emerald eyes and calling her his lord who came to him in his dreams. At their second meeting when she was eighteen and he nineteen, she greets him briefly and decorously and inspires eventually the Divine Comedy one of the seminal works in World literature. By age twenty four Beatrice is dead, leaving her husband, not Dante, to grieve, but Dante to glorify her perhaps as his Muse forever through his writing.
There's a small solemn chapel in Florence where Dante first clapped his eyes on Beatrice and her influence has been significant. More than a woman but a little less than a goddess. Beatrice had the look. Whoever truly loved but didn't love at first sight?
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