Condicions d'amor: De bona amor
The Properties of Good Love
Good love multiplies itself, its power is never evil, knowledge disposes the beloved, and no will is evil within it.
Every beloved who has good and great love ought to be loved with good and great love. ii. Good love, as long as it lasts, multiplies its loving. iii. No power of good love can be evil. iv. As much as good love is known, the beloved is disposed to be loved. v. With good love, no will is evil.1
The Virtuous Foundation of Love
Love without virtue cannot be good; truth and goodness make a true lover, and difference and concordance between lover and beloved are essential.
vi. Love without virtue cannot be good. vii. The truth of goodness and of love makes a good and true lover.2 Without goodness, no love has rest in glory.3 In no love can there be great goodness without difference of lover and beloved. x. Without concordance of lover and beloved, no love can be good.4
The Dynamics of Loving Well
Bad love cannot have a good beloved; good love begins with loving well, has no better means than loving well, and finds its end and rest in good love.
11. No lover with bad love has a good beloved. 12. All good love begins with loving well. 13. No means between the lover and the beloved is better than loving well.5 14. Good love is the end and rest of the good lover.6
The Measure of Love's Greatness
Without goodness love cannot be greater; equality of goodness and love cannot be bad; lesser goodness cannot produce a great lover.
15. Without goodness, no love can be greater. No equality of goodness and of love can be bad. 17. No lesser goodness of love can make a great lover.
Read the original Catalan
Tot amat qui aja bona e gran amor, deu ésser amat per bona e gran amor.
ij. Bona amor, aitant con dura, montiplica son amar. iij. Negú poder de bona amor pot ésser mal. iiij. Aytant com bona amor es sabuda, es dispost lamat a ésser amat. V. Ab bona amor, neguna' volentat es mala.
vj. Amor sens virtut no pot ésser bona. vij. Veritat de bonea e damor fa bo e ver amador, viij. Sens bontat, neguna amor en glòria ha repòs, viiij. En neguna amor pot ésser gran bontat sens differencia d amic e d amat. X. Sens concordansa d amic e d amat, neguna amor pot esscr bona.
xj. Negú amic ab mala amor ha bon amat. xij. Tota bona amor comensa bon amar. xiij. Negú mejà damic e damat es melor que bon amar. xiiij. Bona amor es fi e repòs de bon amador.
XV. Sens bontat, neguna amor pot eser major, xvj. Neguna egaltat de bontat e damor pot ésser mala. xvij. Neguna menor bontat d amor pot fer gran amador.
Notes
- 1 ↩Normalized source has neguna' with an apostrophe; read as neguna volentat ('no will').
- 2 ↩Trailing ', viij.' is the next condition number (viii) attached by print/segmentation; not part of the proposition.
- 3 ↩Trailing ', viiij.' is the next condition number (ix) attached by print/segmentation; not part of the proposition.
- 4 ↩Source reading 'esscr' corrected to 'ésser' (to be); confirmed by the same condition quoted later in the work.
- 5 ↩Catalan mejà read as mitjà (‘means/medium’), the connecting term between amic and amat in Llull’s love dialectic.
- 6 ↩fi kept as teleological ‘end’ (goal), paired with repòs (‘rest/repose’).
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