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Amore Infinito (quite literally, "infinite love") is a multi-act play set during the Italian Renaissance and centers around the lives of Giacomo and Paola, two very different people from very different backgrounds. Giacomo, a poor but honest young man, leaves his home in the Tuscan hills for the bustling city of Florence; while Paola, the headstrong, adventurous daughter of a wealthy Florentine merchant, dreams of a way to flee what she considers a very dismal, unsatisfying future in an arranged marriage.
Midway through the second act, Paola disguises herself as a boy and escapes the merchant's household. The two meet and strike up a friendship, all the while Giacomo tells Paola (now calling herself Paolo) of his search for the amore infinito, a myth of sorts that has purveyed throughout the countryside for a hundred years or more. Is it a tangible item or merely a folk tale told around the fire? No one knows.
Eventually, Paolo falls for Giacomo, though he is still very much unaware that his traveling companion is indeed a girl. Her identity (and their feelings toward each other) are finally revealed during a climactic ending in the very same household Paola was born in.
The two find their own kind of infinite love, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Midway through the second act, Paola disguises herself as a boy and escapes the merchant's household. The two meet and strike up a friendship, all the while Giacomo tells Paola (now calling herself Paolo) of his search for the amore infinito, a myth of sorts that has purveyed throughout the countryside for a hundred years or more. Is it a tangible item or merely a folk tale told around the fire? No one knows.
Eventually, Paolo falls for Giacomo, though he is still very much unaware that his traveling companion is indeed a girl. Her identity (and their feelings toward each other) are finally revealed during a climactic ending in the very same household Paola was born in.
The two find their own kind of infinite love, and the rest, as they say, is history.