What Dante Saw in Beatrice's Eyes: the Art of Penetrating the Images
What could he love about a person he met briefly two times in his life? Dante says it was something he saw in her gaze.
Dante says that he saw Beatrice only twice in his entire life. The first time when they both were nine and the second time when they were eighteen. He says that there was something in the way she looked at him that ignited his love for her, and this love was of a peculiar kind.
He didn’t know her in the usual sense of the word. What could …
