Is it better to speak or to die?

I was once again watching Luca Guadagnino's Call Me by Your Name on Netflix. In one the scene, the professor Perlman(Michael Stuhlbarg) and Annella (Amira Casar) and Elio (Timothée Chalamet) snuggle on the couch while Annella translates from the Heptaméron, the 16th-century collection of fables by Marguerite de Navarre.