Dafne e Apollo

Sì rade volte,padre,se ne cogliePer triunfare o cesare o poeta,colpa e vergogna de l’ umane voglie,Che parturir letizia in su la lietaDelfica deità dovria la frondaPeneia, quando alcun di sé asseta.

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The story

• Apollo is in love with Dafne

• Dafne does not love Apollo

• She runs away from him• She turns into a tree

(alloro) to escape• Apollo still loves her

Deep meaning

- True love should be about the inside, no about the outside

- Chasing love is in vain, because eventually there is nothing left

- One cannot escape love

Love for the inside• English: • Fight for this love (song)• Just hold me (song)• True colors (song)• Phantom of the Opera (musical)• Beauty and the Beast

• Italian:• Dante’s paradiso (poem)• Petrarca’s canzoniere (poem)

• Dutch:• That man (song)

• Greek:• Saffo’s poem• Lotis (myth)

Lotis (Greek myth)

Lotis

• Similar myth (Greek)• About lust, not about

love• The nymph was

changed into a lotis tree, not into an alloro (laurel)

Saffo

Saffo’s poem

• Saffo was a female poet, born between VII and VI century B.C.

• The theme of Voigt is the same as the one in Daphne and Apollo: Love for the inside and metamorphosis

Se ora fugge presto ti inseguirò se non accoglie i tuoi doni, te ne darò, se non ti ama, presto ti amerà, anche se non vuole.

-Saffo I Voigt

Petrarca

Petrarca’s work

• His most famous work is called ‘Canzoniere’

• There is similarity between the story of Daphne and Apollo, and Petrarca’s one. Both the girls do not love their admirers.

Still important: yes or no?YES:

-The theme of love for one’s caracter, and not for his looks, keeps returning in stories and songs

NO:

-Only the most beautiful people are succesful on television and in modelling jobs

Conclusion

• Although there are mostly beautiful people

on television, these people are not really loved for their looks.