You want to know the inmost core of love?
'Tis art and guerdon of a noble heart.
A wonderful canzone by Guinicelli contains the following verses:
A song she seems among the rest and these
Have all their beauties in her splendour drowned.
In her is ev'ry grace,—
Simplicity of wisdom, noble speech,
Accomplished loveliness;
All earthly beauty is her diadem.
This truth my song must teach—