Sep 24, 2025
Love, Basil, and the Cost of Desire
Be careful what you wish for. Desire, when fed in secret, can die of bloom into obsession - and obsession, when denied, can rot into grief.
Elisabetta didn’t just love Lorenzo. She persisted. Even when her brothers buried the truth, she unearthed it... literally.
Some still sing the sad tune "Whoever was the evil man
Who stole away my pot of basil..."(Boccaccio 228)