The following text is a reflection and a comparative analysis between the song “Rose rosse” by Massimo Ranieri, feminicide and the tragedy “Romeo and Juliet” by Shakespeare.

D’AMORE NON SI MUORE

The saying “d’amore non si muore” means that a feeling could not kill a man, but it is true?

In his famous song “Rose rosse” Massimo Ranieri says that he know that he can not die for love but at the same time he can't live without his beloved. This means that love can keep out the rationality; therefore even if "to die for love" seems impossible, sometimes it bring a person to think that it is possible.

Alluding to the theme of “death for love” the well-read reader immediately think to the story of “Romeo and Juliet” written by Shakespeare in 1595.

The two lovers belong to two rival families and when Juliet’s father tries to marriage her with a count she takes a drug that makes her seem dead.  When Romeo sees her he believes that she is dead and poisons himself because he thinks that he could not survive without Juliet.

When Juliet wakes from her trance and sees Romeo dead she kills herself with a knife for escape the sense of guilt and the marriage with another man.

This double suicide is considered the most famous and emblematic death caused by love.

One face of love shows its “purity” and its unconditional affection, but on the other side it has destructive, obsessive and uncontrollable features. To go into depth, when love become not pure the main causes are the insecurity and the absence of an essential balance of powers into a relationship. Somebody when is insecure becomes possessive and could turn his possessiveness in violence towards the beloved. This is one of the numerous causes of feminicide. Possessiveness arises from a kind of emotional dependence that in England is called “love addiction” and it can lead to the extreme limit.

As a consequence, possessiveness could bring not only to a murder, but also to a suicide: in this chases love become madness.

Is there difference between the way of love at the time of Shakespeare and now?

Love is an universal feeling and it is the same in every time and place, but now a lot of people confuse it fair more with other feelings.

Everyone wants a love like that of Romeo and Juliet, because it is eternal and pure; it is a devoted love that goes beyond the concept of death.

Unfortunately, actually this kind of love is rare and idealized and most of the times it is confused with a selfish love in which one partner believe that his beloved is only a property.

The main difference between the story of Romeo and Juliet and a love story of this time is that they killed themselves to stay together in death as in life, but now one kills his partner to stop suffering for the lack of love. The concept of death in the first example is not the end of their love, but the confirmation that it lasts forever; in the second example death is a punishment.