“Ah, cruel Love! What is the reason why
You seldom make our longings correspond?
How is it, traitor, you rejoice to spy
Two hearts discordant, one repelled, one fond?”

— Ludovico Ariosto, book Orlando Furioso

Ingiustissimo Amor, perché sì raro
Corrispondenti fai nostri desiri?
Onde, perfido, avvien che t'è sì caro
Il discorde voler ch’in duo cor miri?
Canto II, stanza 1 (tr. B. Reynolds)
Orlando Furioso (1532)

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