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Monna Vanna 133
tie children of Pisa should be exposed to hunger
and destruction, rather than that he give up his
possession. But Monna Vanna does not hesitate.
When she is before the issue of saving her people,
she does not stop to consider. She goes into the
enemy s tent, as a child might go, without con
sciousness of self, imbued solely with the impulse
to save her people.
The meeting of Monna Vanna and Prinzivalle
is an exquisite interpretation of love the sweet
ness, purity, and fragrance of Prinzivalle s love
for the woman of his dream the one he had
known when she was but a child, and who re
mained an inspiring vision all through his career.
He knows he cannot reach her; he also knows that
he will be destroyed by the political intriguers of
Florence, and he stakes his all on this one step
to satisfy the dream of his life to see Vanna and
in return to save Pisa.
Prinzivalle. Had there come ten thousand of you into
my tent, all clad alike, all equally fair, ten thousand sis
ters whom even their mother would not know apart, I
should have risen, should have taken your hand, and said,
"This is she!" Is it not strange that a beloved image
can live thus in a man s heart? For yours lived so in
mine that each day it changed as in real life the image
of to-day replaced that of yesterday it blossomed out,
it became always fairer; and the years adorned it with
all that they add to a child that grows in grace and
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