Women’s Voices in Medieval Artes Dictandi and Model Letter Collections
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1194-1195
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Antequam uxorem acciperem
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- 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 Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Padova, 2015, p. 33.
summary
The man asks the woman to desist from her request and riconsider her claim, as before he took a wife she refused to have him as a husband. Now, he is married and cannot condescend to her wishes.
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Antequam uxorem acciperem, dedignabaris me recipere in virum; nunc autem qua ratione tue possem condescendere voluntati cum uxorem habeam elegantissimam et multimode pulcritudine decoratam?
Cessa igitur a talibus et tecum hec verba retracta, quoniam alium esse credo in causa qui tuam navem fecit ad portum ignominie devenire.
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