Starting from a qualitative methodology with documental base, the concept of love is revisited in cut that intends to highlight its various representations Renaissance culture: inherited classical culture, reception goes mythology expression Platonic philosophy. The theme finds fertile narrative Renaissance, present poetry Dante, Petrarch, and Colonna, which will greatly influence visual arts. ...

After having listened to Luciano Berio’s recomposition of Mahler1 inside his own Sinfonia (1968), we can never listen again to the original Mahler in the same “pure” way. Our cummulative, historic (and creative) listening makes all cross-references at once each time we go back to either one. I feel that something very similar happened to me after having compared Marenzio’s 4-voice madrigal Zefi...

This contribution introduces and investigates a modelling approach for love dynamics and inspiration by means of System Dynamics, for Laura’s and Petrarch’s emotions as well as for a modern couple in love. In principle, emotions and inspiration emerge from a source and are fading into a sink. But the controlling parameters for increase and decrease of emotion create a broad variety of emotional...