I like Botticelli and Dante very much, so when I was in Florence, my first boyfriend specially booked a house with a special location. A few steps ahead, uffizi Gallery, Botticelli's first collection, and a few steps back, the Arno River is full of tears of Dante's lovesickness.
The two male gods I love have a tragic unrequited love history, and they have been seriously depressed all their lives because of hopeless breakup.
Botticelli, who is good at drawing fairies, draws similar faces for people. That's Simoneta, who he secretly loves all his life. Simoneta is an aristocratic woman. It is said that she was born in Podovinell, the birthplace of Venus. Botticelli's most famous work is The Birth of Venus. Simoneta married Florence at the age of fifteen or sixteen. Because she is as beautiful as a fairy, the whole city of Florence was out when she got married, and people were conquered by her beauty. Simonita deserves to be the first beauty in Florence. Many people are infatuated with Simonetta, not only Botticelli, the best painter at that time, but also Lorenzo and giuliano, two brothers of medici family who ruled Florence. The two brothers fought for the married Simoneta for several years. In the end, giuliano won and took back the beauty. For Botticelli, this secret love is completely desperate. Because medici family is his big money owner, which is the legendary "woman who falls in love with big brother".
This is an old story in Florence more than 500 years ago. 100 years later, Dante also struggled in despair because he fell in love with Beya Tredge. Dante was only 9 years old when he first met this beautiful little girl in the streets of Florence. Dante described this encounter in his poem: "At this time, the spirit of life hidden in the deepest part of life began to tremble violently, even in a very weak pulse." Eight years later, he met her again on a bridge over the Arno River in Florence. Dante described it in his poem, when Beya Treize came leisurely from the river in a long light-colored dress, a dark brown shirt and a rose in his hand. Dante's heart began to beat wildly, and he would never forget this man in his life.
What happened afterwards?
Simoneta and giuliano died only a year later, at the age of 22. Two years later, giuliano was stabbed to death in a coup. According to his last wish, he was buried with Simoneta in all the saints' churches in Florence. Botticelli also left a will in this year and will be buried in the cemetery of All Saints Church after his death. This spoony man has never been married. After 34 years, he hopes to sleep next to his unreachable lover forever.
Shortly after Dante met Beya Terriqi for the second time, she obeyed her father's orders and married another woman. Soon after, at the age of 25, she died of illness. Dante wrote 3 1 poem in memory of her and assembled it into New Life, the first autobiographical work of Lover in the history of western literature. Later, due to political struggle, Dante was expelled from Florence forever, exiled for life and died in another country. He never returned to the Arno River, and never returned to the grave of Beya Tredge. In exile, Dante wrote his masterpiece The Divine Comedy. In this masterpiece, Dante and Beya Treize meet again. In heaven, they have never been apart.
Perhaps because of these two people, the Arno River has a natural depression, especially when it rains. The rain in Florence is misty rain. Because of the Mediterranean climate, there will be no annoying moisture entanglement to make Huangmeitian unhappy. In the misty rain, standing on the oldest bridge in Florence overlooking the river, I can't help but think of those words hidden in my heart, and I will sigh that time is like a breeze, and love is like an impermanent misty rain.
However, before Dante and Botticelli's past, these sad days were only a low-level version of depression, and they were occasional performances and releases in a mediocre life.
Vicho Bridge is a bridge in Dante's time. On the Arno River, Dante met the streets and roads of Beatry Qi, and it also kept its original appearance. 100 years later, Botticelli saw Simone Tower from a distance among the people who went out to see the beauty with the same scenery in the whole city. At a certain moment, I suddenly felt that magic was really good. When I was a child, I often listened to the slogan of rebuilding the magic capital, which changed year after year and changed greatly in three years. Magic is really fickle. As soon as North Sichuan entered the primary school, the kindergarten was demolished. Living in the magic capital, it is too late to touch the scene, so everyone is down-to-earth, and everyone is just rich. Actually, it's really good. The story of severe depression along the Arno River is like a soap opera unknown in a street shop. The man shouted at the top of his voice, "You don't know how painful I was after you left. You'd better never know. "
British painter HenryHoliday wrote Dante and Beatry Qi (1883).
The Birth of Venus, a masterpiece of uffizi Gallery Town Hall.
Botticelli's portrait of Simone Tower based on the death mask of Simone Tower.
My cheap mobile phone didn't shoot a serious travel photography series "David and North Sichuan", but it was shot at the Florence College Art Museum.