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  • Abelard castrated
  • Byzantine wife saves husband
  • Amphitryon & Geta duped
  • Chastelaine de Vergi tragedy
  • Aristotle’s advice to Alexander
  • Empress Theodora: woman leader
  • Tristan & Isuet
  • Xanthippe & Socrates
  • New Modern Sexism Scale

Corbaccio

Il Corbaccio is a work that Giovanni Boccaccio wrote in Italian in the mid-fourteenth century. Superficially dismissed as misogyny, the Corbaccio is a masterpiece of men’s sexed protest.

Boccaccio’s Corbaccio: comic reality of love as new Vita Nuova

Boccaccio’s Corbaccio presents the comic reality of heterosexual seduction and love in a humanistic re-conception of Dante’s Vita Nuova. … Read the post Boccaccio’s Corbaccio: comic reality of love as new Vita Nuova

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