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The Ninth Day
The Ninth Novell
STORYTELLER: EMILIA Emilia gives a long sermon on the frailty of women and their need to
ARTWORK: THE DECAMERON OF PETRU RUSU be governed by men. Even if the law hadn’t made women subservient
THE NINTH DAY, NINTH NOVELL to men, nature did, by making women weak and soft. So women have
1985 HAND COLORED ETCHING
AQUATINTA AQUAFORTE 21X29 CM | 8½X11½ IN to be kind, obedient, patient, and pretty much do whatever their men
tell them to do. If they don’t, they should be punished. Physically, if
need be.
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