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Zima is madly in love with the exceptionally beautiful and faithful wife of Francesco Vergellesi, yet she doesn’t return his affection. When Francesco wants to acquire Zima’s fine horse, he thinks he can do so by manipulating the young man’s feelings, and Zima offers to trade the steed for a chance to have a private conversation with Francesco’s wife. This passage is part of that conversation in which Zima declares his love.
Although Zima is wealthy, he isn’t a noble, unlike Francesco and his wife. In the classic medieval conception of fin’amors (refined loving), the kind of love that Zima…