VIC342H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Marguerite De Navarre, Petrarch
9 Dec 2017
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In boccaccio: trope of women ambushed, surprised in bed: no i(cid:374)sta(cid:374)(cid:272)es of (cid:396)ape, assault (cid:272)o(cid:374)flated (cid:449)ith sedu(cid:272)tio(cid:374): i(cid:374) bo(cid:272)(cid:272)a(cid:272)(cid:272)io(cid:859)s imagination, no possible differentiation between sex and rape. ; finally returns to her father and tells him a false version of her story, full of religious overtones: father believes this story and marries her again as a virgin to algarve. In part of the fake story, claims sent to an abbey devoted to the saint san cresci; Cresci meaning to grow, interpreted as an allusion to erection: alatiel and pericone: gets drunk and is penetrated by pericone, but presented as pleasurable; no difference registered between this and consensual sex. Lu(cid:272)(cid:396)etia(cid:859)s ape a(cid:374)d ape i(cid:374) lite(cid:396)a(cid:396)(cid:455) imagination: a sto(cid:396)(cid:455) featu(cid:396)ed i(cid:374) li(cid:448)(cid:455)(cid:859)s history of rome and thenceforward, lucretia the wife of collatinus, raped by sextus tarquinius. Lucretia and threatens to ruin her reputation if she refuses him.
