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A note from Richard

V2Melody will close at midnight on 20 January 2028

This site has been a retirement project in musical poetry: poems chosen with care and set to music, offered freely for as long as it felt right to keep the garden open.

The work no longer holds the place it once did in my life. I have gone as far with it as I wish to go. Like a sand mandala, it was made to be completed and then released. I am not attached to its permanence, and I do not believe any of it needs to last beyond the time it was given. The poems were already here before I arrived and began to experiment with them. They will still be here when these musical experiments, and indeed myself, have been swept away, like the sand of a mandala. Nothing has been lost.

I want a simpler end to my life, days of simple love and enjoyment with my wonderful wife of 20 years. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit that life.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the site.

The experimental music I am making now is on my Suno profile. Those pieces stay there, and are not added to this site.

Until midnight on 20 January 2028, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. That is when my VPS server contract comes to an end, and it will not be renewed. After that, the server will be switched off and the site will disappear.

The Mandala Is Finished explains this more fully.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard

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Beatrice Portinari

Literary Character
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

The idealized beloved who guides the poet through paradise in Dante’s Divine Comedy.

Detailed Definition
Beatrice Portinari is transformed by Dante from a historical or imagined beloved into a figure of revelation and divine wisdom. In the Vita Nuova, her greeting inspires ethical and poetic renewal; in the Divine Comedy, she replaces Virgil as Dante’s guide through the heavens. Her beauty is not merely erotic but theological, leading the pilgrim toward an understanding of divine love. She represents the beloved as muse, teacher, intercessor, and embodiment of transcendent grace.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Dante’s Divine Comedy, Beatrice Portinari guides the speaker through Paradise and represents revealed wisdom and divine love; Dante’s idealized Beatrice transforms a historical beloved into a spiritual and poetic guide; A poem may use Beatrice as a figure whose presence turns earthly love toward moral and intellectual illumination; Modern poets may revise her role by giving Beatrice her own voice and questioning the tradition of making a woman primarily a symbol for a man’s spiritual development.
Additional Notes
Beatrice Portinari is transformed in Dante’s Divine Comedy from an earthly beloved into a symbol of divine wisdom, grace, and spiritual revelation. She guides Dante through Paradise after Virgil leads him through Inferno and Purgatorio. Her role connects earthly love with theological love, and she exemplifies the idealized beloved, the guide figure, and the ascent toward divine truth.
Also Known As
Bice Portinari Beatrice di Folco Portinari Beatrice (Dante's Beatrice)
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