... everything according to the stipulations of how proper virtuous women should behave, Violenta is left destitute by her husband, for although he gives her 2,000 ducats the morning after the wedding, the exchange is unbalanced as he takes from her something that he cannot ( or will not ) replace - the reputation of her sexual chasteness. Violenta is disgraced not because she loses ... ...

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