In Cavalcanti and Muscia, the disfigured woman is cynically presented as therapy for the illness of love
In Cavalcanti and Muscia, the disfigured woman is cynically presented as therapy for the illness of love In comic-realistic poetry Rustico Filippi, drawing on Latin poetry and medieval Artes dictandi, vituperates the ugly woman for her disgusting body and bad odour, which obliquely reveals immoderate sexuality perfection, decorum, fruition of divine love, ultimately truth. A study of literary female ugliness must necessarily take into account the classical aesthetic models dominant in the Western canon...
