Federigo's Falcon

Federigo’s Falcon

Passion is a strong, powerful or compelling emotion or feeling, as love or hate. In this short story, a noble man, blinded by love, shows how passionate he is about Monna Giovanna. She is the only thing he thinks about. The rich man is willing to do anything for her love. However, his desire for Monna leads to undesirable consequences.

Federigo’s passion for a rich and beautiful woman is so strong that he does not see what is beyond her. Federigo spends his entire fortune in an attempt to win Monna’s heart. He spent more than he could afford and with nothing in return. He was too blinded to see that he was not gaining anything from all those expenses, and for this he is ignored while she is happy without him, leaving him just with a small farm and a falcon to his name.

The falcon helped him to survive; it was his only help, catching food within the woods near to his farm. Monna’s son sees Federigo’s falcon and falls in love with this majestic beast, but sadly Monna’s son gets ill, and his only desire was that beautiful falcon whose owner, is the man who is blindly in love of his mother, so he said to his mom “Mother, if you can arrange for me to have Federigo’s falcon, I think I would be well very soon” . She invites herself to Federigo’s farm looking for the falcon, knowing that Federigo still has those feelings for her, which left him in the poverty. The son of Messer Fillippo Alberighi decides to make a dinner worthy of her presence. Since he has no food, he decides to kill his only possession (His falcon) to be served for dinner; he ended up killing the only property he currently has. After the dinner, that beautiful and rich woman, Monna, asks for the falcon for her son but all of a sudden he weeps, and with regret tells to his beloved what he had done to honor her.

Passion is a powerful love someone posses, for Federigo, love is weakness. His passion for Monna was extremely strong that made him weak, because he had no control over himself and wasted a huge fortune because of her; therefore his passionate love for Monna distracted him from reality. He did not think in the consequences that his actions would bring for his life.

During this story, the passion showed by Federigo for Monna led him to do things that could not be undone, like losing his fortune or killing his falcon. Therefore, he would also show weakness because he was not thinking straight when he did things to win her heart. However after the death of the Monna’s son, she decides to marry with Federigo, because of the noble act of kiliing his only thing, the falcon, to make a desirable meal for her. Even though her family forbids her to marry with a poor man, she told to her brothers: “My brothers, I am well aware of what you say, but I would rather have a man who needs money than money that needs a man” and she did it anyway, because she found

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