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Latin was a scholar’s luxury.

'But finally, the classics,’ the abbot ventured timidly.

-What classics! Man’s first duty is to live. And for that, it is necessary to be healthy and strong. All sensible education consists of this: creating health, strength, and habits, developing the animal exclusively, arming it with great physical superiority. As if it had no soul. The soul comes later….The soul is another luxury.

“príncipe artista da Renascença, um soneto em italiano enrolado
entre as flores e tão perfumado como elas: comparava-a a uma
nobre dama da Síria, dando a gota de água da sua bilha ao cavaleiro
árabe, ferido na estrada ardente; comparava-a à Beatriz do Dante.”

“Vi-te essa noite no esplendor das salas
Com as loiras tranças volteando louca…”

(…”e a sua face, grave e pura como um / mármore grego, aparecia realmente adorável, iluminada pelos olhos de / um azul sombrio, entre aqueles tons rosados”)

Affonso ended up discovering an intimate charm in the view.It was like a seascape,framed in white stonework, suspended from the blue sky showing the fleeting episodes of a peaceful river life with always in the background two white houses full of expression, sometimes sparkling and emitting rays from the glowing windows;sometimes taking on a pensive air,covered in the tender pinks of sunset,almost like a human blush