About Love

From Preface to Neapolis - The Siren's Recall

One last, needed note, about love. In this novel a few stories intertwine. They are naturally seen and lived through the eyes (and the heart) of the author, though modulated through the requirements of the historical frame.
They are stories from another time, from a culture and a society very different from our our own, and that will hurt the susceptibility of many. Yet, if anyone would try to directly extrapolate by these stories the ways of feeling of the author, he/she would make a big mistake and would use a reading key at least misleading.
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The characters you will know live the feeling abandoning themselves to it, not trying to drive or control it, because when they try that, they miserably fail. Just like we, the present-day and advanced western civilisation, are failing, trying to put a price tag or to give some usefulness to something that doesn't have them by its nature.
For this as well, if I managed to think about this topic in this way, I have to thang Naples, her soul of condescending mother for the juvenile loves of a son, of passionate and jealous lover, of sublime and refined poetess.