Dafne e Apollo

1. Dafne e Apollo • Sì rade volte,padre,se ne coglie • Per triunfare o cesare o poeta, • colpa e vergogna de l’ umane voglie, • Che parturir letizia in su la lieta • Delfica deità dovria la fronda • Peneia, quando alcun di sé asseta. • Dante paradiso I 28-33

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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)

5. Lotis • Similar myth (Greek) • About lust, not about love • The nymph was changed into a lotis tree, not into an alloro (laurel)

6. Saffo

7. Saffo’s poem 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 • 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

8. Petrarca

9. 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.

10. 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 Still important: yes or no?

11. Conclusion • Although there are mostly beautiful people on television, these people are not really loved for their looks.