Malattia D'amore Info

: The term frequently appears in Italian songs (like those by Ricchi e Poveri) to describe the bittersweet, overwhelming feeling of falling in love that feels like a "sweet illness". Marilena Panarelli, Per cacciar la malinconia delle femine

Today, "Malattia d'amore" survives more as a cultural and artistic trope than a medical diagnosis. Malattia d'amore

In the Middle Ages and Renaissance, physicians treated love not as a metaphor, but as a pathological condition of the "estimative faculty". : The term frequently appears in Italian songs