“What a man sees, Love can make invisible—and what is invisible, that can Love make him see.”

—  Ludovico Ariosto, book Orlando Furioso

Quel che l'huom vede Amor gli fa invisibile
E l'invisibil fa vedere Amore.
Canto I, stanza 56 (tr. G. Waldman)
Orlando Furioso (1532)

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