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The fact that "love and warfare" is mostly overlooked is astounding due to the fact of many cases being that case like the bible, empires, and even the story Rappaccini's Daughter. The trapping and enduring pain of an unfortunate victim that was succumbed by lust and worship to a beauty is represented in the text multiple times. An Aristotelian that realizes the reality of the situation is heated as he ventures into the dark life he has been dreaming of out of the window into safe haven, it corresponds with the writing intensely and adds thorough depth in the knowledge of literature. Medicine, philosophy, and theology is the common poison of the ignorant commoner and can’t get past the sin that has been done to be trapped in an everlasting forest of lust. A young mind in the event of seeing a future sexual and lasting relationship can boggle through for quite a while, and the individual won’t be able to see another reality without it. Giovanni pursued his desire into the wrong from the good to be with Beatrice knowing she had a very serious condition being held in a haven for her al...

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