In Decameron X.9, Boccaccio responded to Dante with vision of true consolation of Lady Philosophy: personally loving, virtuous action in worldly living. … Read the post Dante’s Boethius buried in Boccaccio’s Decameron X.9
Unlike Lady Philosophy taking Boethius home, Maximianus through a series of demoralizing sexual relationships aged into a bitter old man. … Read the post Maximianus lacked consolation of Lady Philosophy & Boethius
Hildebert of Lavardin warned that the woman-spirit’s domination of man leads to “shameful and ridiculous appetites for death.” … Read the post Hildebert of Lavardin on woman’s role in the pursuit of death
Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy, full of poetry and rhetorical intrigue, leads Boethius to remembering his personal virility with Lady Philosophy. … Read the post Lady Philosophy and man blindness in Boethius’s Consolation