Structure and Personages
- Libro I - Perottino: the unfortunate lover who expresses love's negativity via psychophysiological analyses - playing on the words amore (love) and amare (bitter) "he argues that love is bitter, that all love causes bitterness, and that all bitterness proceeds from love"
- Libro II - Gismondo: the fortunate lover who refutes Perottino's thesis by expounding love's positivity
- Libro III - Lavinello: who refutes both Perottino and Gismondo by supporting the theory of Platonic love - contemplating the beautiful ideal present in earthly things; Kidwell summarises this as "In short, good love is that which one can enjoy eternally and bad that which condemns us eternally to grief"
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