Digestum novum, Bologna, Biblioteca
del Collegio di Spagna 283, fol. 82v |
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375),
Decameron (1348-1350) 6.7
Madonna Filippa
Rinaldo de' Pugliesi (Husband)
Lazzarino de' Guazzagliotri
(Lover)
Prato
Podestà
"Every man and
woman should be equal before the law, and laws must have the consent of
those who are affected by them . . . when this law was made,
no woman gave her consent to it, nor was any woman even so much as
consulted. It can therefore be described as a very bad law." |