Gaius Valerius Catullus and Love is more than

Gaius Valerius Catullus and Love …is more than one word Arnaldo Mariani - Liceo scientifico di Avezzano AQ - Arnaldo Maria

Who is he? Where… Date… Life… Poetae novi… Arnaldo Mariani - Liceo scientifico di Avezzano AQ - 2

An example of love in Rome Arnaldo Mariani - Liceo scientifico di Avezzano AQ - 3

His love She is… Catullus and … Arnaldo Mariani - Liceo scientifico di Avezzano AQ - 4

How we use… to LOVE I love music I love you I love my dog I love flowers I love my family I love sport I love one’s children I love… Arnaldo Mariani - Liceo scientifico di Avezzano AQ - 5

Carmen 5 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus Rumoresque senum severiorum Omnes unius aestimemus assis. Soles occidere et redire possunt: nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux, nox est perpetua una dormienda. Da mihi basia mille, deinde centum, dein mille altera, dein secunda centum deinde usque altera mille, deinde centum. Dein, cum milia multa fecerimus, conturbabimus illa, ne sciamus, aut nequis malus invidere possit, cum tantum sciat esse basiorum. 1 -3 : The life and the love 4 -6 : The life is short 7= 27 ; 8= 33 9= 35 Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love, and let us judge all the rumors of the old men to be worth just one penny! The suns are able to fall and rise: When that brief light has fallen for us, we must sleep a never ending night. Give me a thousand kisses, then another hundred, then another thousand, then a second hundred, then yet another thousand more, then another hundred. Then, when we have made many thousands, we will mix them all up so that we don't know, and so that no one can be jealous of us when he finds out how many kisses we have shared. 7 -9: the kisses 10 - 13: the lover’s superstition Arnaldo Mariani - Liceo scientifico di Avezzano AQ - 6

Carmen 51 • • Ille mi par esse deo videtur, Ille, si fas est, superare divos, Qui sedens adversus identidem te Spectat et audit • • Dulce ridentem, misero quod omnis Eripit sensus mihi: nam simul te, Lesbia, adspexi, nihil est super mi • • vocis in ore • • Lingua sed torpet, tenuis sub artus Flamma demanat, sonitu suopte Tintinant aures, gemina teguntur Lumina nocte. • • • Otium, Catulle, tibi molestum est: Otio exsultas nimiumque gestis. Otium et reges prius et beatas Perdidit urbes • • • • That man seems to me to be equal to a god, That man, if it is right to say, seems to surpass the gods, who sitting opposite to you repeatedly looks at you and hears your sweet laughter, something which robs miserable me of all feelings: for as soon as I look at you, Lesbia, no voice remains in my mouth. But the tongue is paralyzed, a fine fire spreads down through my limbs, the ears ring with their very own sound, my eyes veiled in a double darkness. Idleness, Catullus, is your trouble; idleness is what delights you and moves you to passion; idleness has proved ere now the ruin of kings and prosperous cities. Arnaldo Mariani - Liceo scientifico di Avezzano AQ - 7

Carmen 85 • Odi et amo. Quare id faciam fortasse requiris. • Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior. • I hate and I love. Wherefore would I do this, perhaps you ask? • I do not know. But I feel that it happens and I am tortured. • • Ὲρέω τε δηὖτε κοὐκ ἐρέω, καὶ μαίνομαι κοὐ μαίνομαι. • Amo e non amo, • sono pazzo e non sono pazzo. (Frammento 46, Gentili) Anacreonte Teo, 570 a. C. circa – 485 a. C. circa Arnaldo Mariani - Liceo scientifico di Avezzano AQ - 8

And now the end is near…. . . and you have to work 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Dicebas quondam solum te nosse Catullum, Lesbia, nec prae me velle tenere Iovem. Dilexi tum te non tantum ut vulgus /amat /amicam, Sed pater ut gnatos diligit et generos. Nunc te cognovi: quare etsi impensius uror, Multo mi tamen es vilior et levior. Qui potis est? inquis. Quod amantem iniuria talis Cogit amare magis, sed bene velle minus. • • You used to say that you knew only Catullus, • Lesbia, neither did you wish to know Jupiter instead of me. At that time I loved you not as the common crowd of men love a girlfriend • but as a father loves his sons and sons in law. • Now I know you: wherefore even if I burn the worse, • you are cheaper and of less meaning to me. • You say how can this be? Because a hurt of such a kind • forces a lover to love more, but to wish her less well. Arnaldo Mariani - Liceo scientifico di Avezzano AQ - 9

Too many words? • • To know To wish To love To burn To desire To like To care To be cheerful etc etc Arnaldo Mariani - Liceo scientifico di Avezzano AQ - 10