I. De les rails de Filosofia d'amor
The Roots of the Tree of Love
Ramon recalls the loving Art and names its eighteen beginnings as the roots of the Tree of Love, which are then divided into definitions, mixtures, and thoughts of love.
Ramon remembered the loving Art that he had made, and took the1 eighteen beginnings of that Art, and he called those the roots of this Tree of Love, which roots are: goodness, greatness, duration, power, wisdom, will, virtue, truth, glory, difference, concordance, contrariety, beginning, middle, end, majority, equality, and minority.2 Through these roots of love one can search out and find everything that belongs to good and great loving; and we divide these roots into three parts, that is to say: definitions, mixtures, and thoughts of love.3
Read the original Catalan
Remembra Ramon la Art amaliva que feta avia, e pres los . xviij. comensaments daquela, e aquels apelà les rails d aquest Arbre d amor, les quals rails son; bonea, granea, duració, poder, saviea, volentat, vertut, veritat glòria, differencia, concordancia, contrarietat, comensament, mijà, fi, majoritat, egaltat e menoritat. Per aquestes rails damor pot hom ensercar e atrobar tot so quis pertayn a bo e gran amar; e aquestes rails departim en . iij. parts, so es a saber: diffinicions, mesclamens, e cogitacions damor.
Notes
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