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Record Number:
8650
Author(s):
Papi, Anna Benvenuti.
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Title :
Alibech el il deserto [Boccaccio’s tale of Alibech apes exempla about holy hermits. Human nature leads the pious Alibech and the holy hermit into sin. This tale was told when Italy was full of urban recluses like Margaret of Cortona, but it is set in a woodland. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
In castro poenitentiae: santità e società femminile nell’Italia medievali. Anna Benvenuti Papi . Herder, 1990. Pages 403 - 414. Earlier published in Studies in Church History 27 (1990): 53-78.
Year of Publication:
1990.