“For what in all the world is left to her
Whose chastity is lost?”

— Ludovico Ariosto , book Orlando Furioso

Ch'aver può donna al mondo più di buono,
A cui la castità levata sia?
Canto VIII, stanza 42 (tr. B. Reynolds)
Orlando Furioso (1532)

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Ch'aver può donna al mondo più di buono, A cui la castità levata sia?

Orlando Furioso (1532)

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Italian poet 1474–1533

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