Hai presente il quinto canto dell'Inferno dove Paolo e Francesca vengono fatalmente attratti dalla galeotta lettura di un libro? Galeotto can describe a song, a kiss, a dance, some poetry, an action, and in the case of our chef, Dante, food, or at least, that's the way he sees it. So when something is described with the adjective galeotto, it has the quality of being an amorous catalyst or agent, causing two people to fall in love. (adjective), favoring, encouraging love between two people).Ģ (aggettivo, sostantivo maschile), intermediario d’amore (adjective, masculine noun), matchmaker, intermediary in love matters)
Here's a definition of galeotto from an Italian dictionary (De Mauro):ġ (aggettivo), che favorisce, incoraggia l’amore fra due persone : motivo galeotto, canzone galeotta To add to the mix, galeotto , with a lower case "g" is often used as an adjective, whose ending changes according to the gender of the noun it's modifying. So, Galeotto is considered to be a sort of matchmaker, an intermediary in love matters, a cupid-type figure, we might say, but not necessarily a person or god. The book and whoever wrote it was the matchmaker : Following are the original lines from Dante. Learn more about these stories here (in English). The spell seemed to affect Paolo and Francesca, too, and they fell in love immediately, as if struck by the book itself.
In it, Francesca recounts that she and Paolo had been reading in the Arthurian legends about Lancelot and Guinevere and how they had fallen in love as if under a spell, helped along by Galehaut, or Gallehaud, and called Galeotto in Italian. He makes a reference to the famous star-crossed lovers, Paolo and Francesca, mentioned in the Fifth Canto of Dante's Inferno. Dante is trying to win Eva's affections by cooking irresistible dishes. In a recent segment of La Ladra, Eva and Dante are in the kitchen of the restaurant.
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