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

date

1194-1195

author

Boncompagnus de Signa

title

Amoris vestri vinculum per effectum

bibliography

  • Boncompagno da Signa, Rota Veneris
  • La Rota Veneris di Boncompagno da Signa. Edizione critica, ed. Luca Core. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Padova, 2015, p. 31.

summary

The bond of their love should be dissolved as the woman is wedded to another man. Therefore she cannot, nor ought to love the recipient of letter, who was her former lover.

teibody

Amoris vestri vinculum per effectum operum dissolvatur quoniam nupsi viro qui me maritali annulo subarravit, cinxit collum meum lapidibus pretiosis deditque vestes auro et gemmis plurimum renitentes; unde non possum nec debeo tecum more solito iocundari.

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