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Oretta
Oretta Oretta carries the Boccaccian wit and Tuscan elegance of its most famous literary bearer — a name for women of quick intelligence, graceful social ease, and the confidence to redirect a boring story. In Italian fiction it projects a charming, cultured femininity rooted in the great Florentine literary tradition, suited to historical stories of medieval and Renaissance Tuscany or to contemporary women with a taste for Italian literary culture.
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Madonna Oretta
The Decameron — Giovanni Boccaccio
The noblewoman in the Sixth Day's first tale who, during a tedious horseback ride, asks a knight to tell her a story and wittily ends his rambling narrative — a figure of elegant feminine intelligence and wit.
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