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

date

1224-1225

author

Guido Faba

title

Honeste ac sapientissime domine A.

bibliography

  • Guido Faba, dictamina rhetorica
  • Guidonis Fabe Dictamina rhetorica, ed. A. Gaudenzi, Il Propugnatore, 5, 25-26 (1892): 111.

summary

This is in reply to the model letter whose incipit reads: Reverendo domino G. suis meritis diligendo. The husband G. answers to A. that he is married to B., and, thus, not marital bonds exist anymore between them.

teibody

Honeste ac sapientissime domine A., multa venustate et bonis moribus redimite, G. salutem et omne bonum.

Nobili mulieri domine B., cum qua nunc moror, coniugali federe copulatus, vobiscum, ipsa vivente quam mortuam reputabam, matrimonium non potui consumare, prohibente divina lege pariter et humana.

Quare tenore presentium vos esse scientes in omnibus absolutam, dubitatione qualibet procul mota, vestram potestis libere facere voluntatem.

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