When you read the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, wonderfully described by the pen of Shakespeare, it is impossible not to be attracted to them. We forget that these places were devastated by problems of political conflict and especially religious ones. Many of which were carefully avoided by the authors.
Until the end, we enter into the scene of a lighthearted love story. A story where our romantic desire makes us imagine the two lovers really deeply in love, happy with their mutual feeling despite the social context, which the authors have limited to the relational conflict among two families. Even in the tragic suicide, preceded by games, playful and light-hearted, the authors merely show relational problems in the family: unmet expectations among mothers, fathers and children, while their love, extremely pure, calls them on a terrible trial, as if the life of one, without the other, becomes senseless. The risk, at that time, where being beautiful and easygoing could mean death, was very high. The seductive beauty has been always pursued. The price that it paid over the centuries is to be kidnapped, raped, tortured. Because nothing in the world can give the light that gives the seduction.
Let's run for a moment among the paths of the Scaranto Alto Arcugnano (Path of Purification of the Soul).
Come on, in front of 12,000,000 defendants, guilty of living a wonderful love story, only a Templar could pass them by. The Knights were the only honest interlocutors who defended pilgrims and citizens. A Police all over the Police, which have become unreliable. The Templar Knights were practically don't mentioned at all. Yet we are just among 1301 and 1307. Why?
At the start of the Presidium Templar, the poison will save them from the worse trouble. And here, Luigi Da Porto concludes the impossible love story. If they had lived more, he should have dealt with issues between them and their survival in the social era. A life impossible, though it was beautiful in their own little world. Just look at the physical features of Torquemada: they are chilling. The Port of Angels was for the two lovers a happy island in the shelter of a hellish world. In a city more controlled than the others, a similar story could not arise and survive without attracting attention.
Sheltered by the rolling hills of Arcugnano: only here perhaps certain feelings could survive. A place where a vessel suspected represented the arrival of the Authority and was immediately reported by sighting towers. If the novel had gone over, guys like these were the best candidates for the stake. Just only for their beauty. In fact, most people do not feel that there is an important symbolism behind the mysterious painting “Sacred Allegory” of Giovanni Bellini. His final tragedy makes us realize our fortune. This tragedy is not happening to our love story. The reality is that this serene image has distracted us from what writers like Shakespeare (John Florio), Luigi da Porto, wanted to tell covertly, without afford to do so. Because if they had, they would have paid with their lives for this. Any process was required at that time to be burned alive. One last detail about how a story of a terrible invasive violence on freedom of the passions has been transformed into a fairy-tale story. This is a key to understanding and forced misdescription, which was quite common at that time. Today, for two homosexuals kissing in front of the beauty of a Colosseum, fortunately today harmless, offends those who consider that place a reference point where, now as then, you could free your own violence. The complainant considers love as an indecent act.
A boy and a girl denounced because they kiss in front of a masterpiece of romance as it is the Ponte Vecchio in Florence, is not violence? The diligent cop, who brings in front of Magistrate the girl separated from the boy, evokes inquisitors procedures along the lines of the Witch Hunt. How many people, even today, believe that an act of love as a kiss is not part of nature itself? And "these things" must be consumed in a dark and cramped place. In the darkness of the night? Many lovers from around the world, provided that you really and truly know the sincere meaning of the word love, try it! You will find yourself in trouble.