the lesson here to be learned being that “human nature was originally one and we were a whole, and the desire and pursuit of the whole is called love [according to its three kinds]... And if we are friends of God and reconciled to him we shall find our own true loves, which rarely happens in this world”; whereas, “if we are not obedient to the gods there is a danger that we shall be split up again and go about in basso-relievo.”
