When love is hidden, it becomes more intense and mysterious. If you're living a story that can't be revealed to the world, these words might be the perfect way to express that deep and secret feeling.

But platonic love between men carried no stigma in the Renaissance. Take the verses of Venetian writers Orsatto Giustinian and Celio Magno, who published their poetry in a single book in 1601.

Thirty-one love poems go back to scenes in Florence in 1284 when he was 18: a young man vibrating in “the most secret room of the heart” since the age of 9.