Boccaccio, and Maria of Portugal

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

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Of the many works that form the canon of the debate on women in the fifteenth century, particularly in the Iberian Peninsula, there is a text that often omitted. This lesser known text was written by one of the most...