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O ridiculum stolidum! Ignorant ociosam feminam Veneri militare et summe publicis invidere meretriculis earumque cellas suis preponere claustris; et dum secularia coniugia spectant,
vestes ornatusque varios, choreas et festos dies, se, nulla coniugii habita experientia, vere et ab ipso vite huius ingressu viduas deflent, fortunam suam, parentum animas, victas et claustra tota execrantur mente, nec alibi solature mesta precordia recurrunt quam in meditationem quo pacto in fugam carcerem erumpere possint aut saltem intromictere mechos, incestu querentes agere furtim quod palam illis sublatum est fecisse coniugio.

How ridiculous and foolish! These people do not know that an idle woman serves Venus and is consumed with envy of the public prostitutes, whose brothels she prefers to her own cloister. When nuns see the weddings of secular women, their dresses and various ornaments, dances and festivals, and realize that they themselves will have no experience of marriage, they feel sorry for themselves. As though widowed on the doorstep of life, they curse mightily their destiny, the souls of their parents, their own veils, and their cloisters. As consolation for the sadness in their hearts, their sole recourse is to plan how they can escape from their prison or at least bring their lovers inside, trying to take secretly the sexual pleasure whose open enjoyment in marriage has been denied them.

English translation by Virginia Brown.

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from De Mulieribus Claris .​.​. Giovanni Boccaccio (2020), released November 15, 2020

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Thomas Oboe Lee Cambridge, Massachusetts

Thomas Oboe Lee was born in China in 1945. He lived in São Paulo, Brazil, for six years before coming to the United States in 1966. After graduating from the University of Pittsburgh, he studied composition at the New England Conservatory and Harvard University. He has been a member of the music faculty at Boston College since 1990. ... more

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