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Nicoletta
Nicoletta Nicoletta carries the Greek victory-of-the-people alongside the medieval French Nicolette's surprising agency in the chante-fable tradition — the foreign girl who is more resourceful and self-determining than the romance conventions of her time typically allowed female characters to be. The Italian diminutive form gives the name warmth and intimacy, softening the Greek triumphal root into something personal and affectionate. It suits characters who are underestimated by the world around them and prove definitively capable.
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Nicolette
Aucassin et Nicolette — Anonymous
The captive Saracen girl whose love for the French nobleman Aucassin drives their mutual adventures in this thirteenth-century chante-fable, a rare medieval work with a female hero of equal agency to the male protagonist.
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