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

date

1150-1160

author

Magister Guido

title

Sicut dies quoque obscura

bibliography

  • Magistri Guidonis Opera, ed. Elisabetta Bartoli, Firenze: SISMEL-Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2014, VII, 21, p. 146.

summary

An "exordium" of a model love letter.

teibody

Sicut dies quoque obscura sua claritate dilucidat et obryzum coloris sui puritate cetera metalla superat sic, uxor karissima, vel amica dulcissima, tue facieif color tamque smaragdus splendet vel preradiat, et totius albedo corporis nimium candore plus albicat.

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