Qüestions d'amor: De duració e amor
The Lover's Power to Love and Its Duration
The Angel of Love asks how the Lover has power to love, the Lover asks what hinders his loving, and he asks why love does not last.
Question. The Angel of Love asked the Lover how he had the power to love. ii. The Lover wanted to love and could not love, and he asked Love what was hindering his loving. iii. The lover was one Day without love, and he asked Love why it didn't last.
What to Love and How Long It Lasts
The Friend asks which virtue to love most, True Love asks why false love lasts, and the Lover asks how long the paintings and figures of love last.
iv. The Friend asked the Beloved which virtue he ought to love most. v. True love asked the Friend's wisdom and memory why false love has lasted so long. vi. The paintings and figures in the chamber of the Lover and the Beloved—how long do they last?
Abandonment, Endurance, and Folly in Love
The female Lover asks why her Beloved fled, Concordance asks how it endures when the Lover bears hardships, Love asks why it abandons the Lover, and Wisdom and Duration ask about the folly of love.
vii. The female Lover asked Love why her Beloved had fled from her.1 viii. Concordance of Lover and Beloved: by what do you endure when the Lover bears great hardships for his Beloved?2 ix. Love of the Lover, why do you abandon the Lover, since you have made him fall in love?3 x. Wisdom and Duration asked the Lover whether he knew what the folly of love is.4
Foundations, Attainment, and Fading of Love
Servants ask about the greatest foundations of love, the Lover asks how to attain the Beloved's love, how love can be greater, how pleasures and passions are equal, and why pleasure, solace, and sojourn of love do not last.
11. Servants of love asked the Lover if he knew what the greatest foundations of love are. XII. The Lover sent to the Beloved One5 A letter of love in which he asked him by what he could attain and have his love. XIII. Love, said the Lover: by what can you be greater? XIV. The Lover asked his pleasures and his passions by what they were equal in his love.6 XV. Pleasure, solace, and sojourn of love — why don't they last?7
Read the original Catalan
Qüestió. Àngel damor demanà a lamic, ab que avia poder d amar.
ij. Amar volia lamic e no podia amar, e demanà al amar, qui li empatxava son amar.
iij. Lamic estech . j. dia sens amor, e demanà a lamor, per que no durava.
iiij. A lamat demanà lamic, qual vertut devia molt amar. V. A la saviea e membransa de lamic demanà vera amor, per que falsa amor tan longuament ha durat.
vj. Les pintures e figures de la cambra de lamic e lamat, ab que duren?
vij. Demanàlamica lamor, per que li era fugit son amat. viij. Concordansa damic e damat,' ab que dures con lamic ha grans trebayls per son amat? viiij. Amor damic, per que desempares lamic, pus que las enamorat? X. Saviea e duració demanaren a lamic, si sabia què es fulia' damor.
xj. Servidors damor demanaren a lamic, si sabia quals son los majors fundaments damor.
xij. Tramès lamic a lamat . j. epístola damor en la qual li demanava, ab que poria aconseguir e aver la sua amor. xiij. Amor, dix lamich: ab que pots ésser major? xiiij. Demanà lamic als seus plaers e a les sues passions, ab que estaven eguals en la sua amor.
XV. Plaer solàs e sejorn damor, per que no dura?
Notes
- 1 ↩Source agglutination Demanàlamica lamor read as Demanà l'amica l'amor: the feminine Lover (l'amica) questioned personified Love (l'amor).
- 2 ↩Normalized damat,' to d'amat and read con as quan ('when'); dures taken as 2sg of durar addressed to Concordance, matching the chapter's duration questions.
- 3 ↩Source las enamorat read as l'has enamorat ('you have made him fall in love'); pus que rendered as causal 'since'.
- 4 ↩Saviea read as Saviesa (Wisdom); fulia' damor read as fúlia/follia d'amor, 'folly of love'.
- 5 ↩Medieval Catalan .j. is the numeral one (un), not a separate section heading; it belongs with the surrounding letter sentence.
- 6 ↩In Llull, passions often means the sufferings undergone for love, paired with pleasures; kept passions to preserve the cognate and that double sense.
- 7 ↩sejorn: Old Catalan for sojourn/stay/dwelling; rendered as 'sojourn' to keep the sense of love's temporary abode or rest.
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