Women’s Voices in Medieval Artes Dictandi and Model Letter Collections

date

1054-1155

author

Anonymous

title

V. sermocinalis facetie gemula

bibliography

  • Helene Wieruszowski, A Twelfth- Century “Ars dictaminis” in the Barberini Collection of the Vatican Library. Traditio 18 (1962): 382-393, in ead. Politics and Culture in medieval Spain and Italy, Roma: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura 1971, n. 15, p. 343.

summary

The woman will able to satisfy the manʼs request but she will keep her virginity.

This letter, which is marked as R (responsiva), is a response to the missiva with the opening words (M. virginali flosculo).

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