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"There are few," he says, "who have not, at one period of life, broken ties of love and friendship, secret disappointments of the heart, to mourn over, and we know no book which recalls the memory of them more severely than 'Julia de Roubigne." He could not be very eager to recall them, he who had so bitterly endured them, and because he had known and always knew "l'amor che move 'l sol e l'altre stelle," a seal was on his lips, a silence broken only by a caress of Di Vernon's.
I will show her in the circle of spotless flame, among the rivers and rings of eternal light, which revolve around the inmost heart, the fiery rose, and move obedient to the Love which moves the sun." And his thought shaped itself into verse and he murmured to himself: L'amor che muove il sole e l'altre stelle. The King had not slept for three nights.
"Con l'altre donne mia vista gabbate, E non pensate, donna, onde si mova Ch'io vi rassembri sì figura nova, Quando riguardo la vostra beltate," &c. Son. 5. And in the sonnet that follows, he accuses her of preventing pity of him in others, by such "killing mockery" as makes him wish for death ("la piet
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