Condicions d'amor: De glòria e d'amor
The Foundation of Glory in Love
Glory through love requires both difference and harmony between lover and beloved.
Without difference between the Lover and the Beloved, no one can have glory through love. ii. Without harmony between the Lover and the Beloved, no one can have glory from love.
The Cost of Glory
Only those willing to suffer for love can hope to share in its glory.
iii. Whoever fears to bear suffering for love is a fool if they expect to have glory through love.
The Chamber of Glorious Solace
In the chamber of glorious love, the lover and beloved find solace and the lover gathers the fulfillment of loving.
iv. Through the glory of love, the solace of the Lover and the Beloved begins.1 v. In the chamber of glorious love, the Lover and the Beloved are in solace. vi. In the chamber of glorious love the Lover gathers the fulfillment of his loving.2
The Measure of Glory
The greatest Beloved grants the greatest glory to the greatest lovers.
vii. The greater Beloved gives the greatest glory of love to the greatest lovers.3
Equality and Renunciation
In glory, lover and beloved are equal in perfection, and no one who abandons greater glory for lesser truly loves.
viii. In glory, where the Lover and the Beloved are equal, no perfection lacks anything. ix. No one has greater love who leaves greater glory for lesser.
Read the original Catalan
Sens differencia d amic e d amat, negú pot aver glòria per amor.
ij. Sens concordansa d amic e d amat, negú pot aver glòria damor.
iij. Qui tem sostenir pena per amor, fol es si espera aver glòria per amor.
iiij. Per glòria damor comcnsa solàs d amic e d amat. V. En cambra de gloriosa amor estan en solàs lamic e lamat.
vj. En cambra de gloriosa amor cuyl lamic la fi de son amar.
vij. La major glòria damor donal major amat als majors amadors.
viij. En glòria on ha egaltat damich e damat, neguna perfecció no ha de res freitura. viiij. Negú ha major amor, qui lexa major glòria per menor.
Notes
- 1 ↩Source reading comcnsa treated as comença ('begins'); likely a manuscript/OCR corruption.
- 2 ↩Old Catalan cuyl = cull (collir): ‘gathers/reaps.’ fi can mean end, goal, or consummation; rendered as fulfillment to keep the mystical sense without sounding terminal.
- 3 ↩Source donal read as dona'l ('gives it'): object-fronted order La major glòria d'amor … dona'l major amat als majors amadors. Less likely as dona al ('gives to the').
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