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I·seult

(ĭ-so͞olt′) also I·sol·de (ĭ-sōl′də, ĭ-zōl′-)

In Arthurian legend, an Irish princess who married the king of Cornwall and had a love affair with his knight Tristan.

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Iseult

(ɪˈsuːlt) or

Yseult

;

Isolde

(ɪˈzəʊldə)

(in Arthurian legend) n

1. (European Myth & Legend) an Irish princess wed to Mark, king of Cornwall, but in love with his knight Tristan

2. (European Myth & Legend) (in another account) the daughter of the king of Brittany, married to Tristan

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I•seult

or Y•seult

(ɪˈsult)

n.

a heroine of Arthurian legend, the wife of King Mark of Cornwall and the lover of Tristram.

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Iseult - (Middle Ages) the bride of the king of Cornwall who (according to legend) fell in love with the king's nephew (Tristan) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other

Isolde

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Dark Ages, Middle Ages - the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance

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(30) "Isotta had so thoroughly accepted her culture's evaluation of the worth of women that she could not defend her sex without at the same time undermining its dignity" (King e Rabil 59).

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Although she finds it "hard to trace a continuity between these women humanists writing in Latin and their successors writing in Italian in the next and later centuries," the arguments in defense of women, such as those of Isotta Nogarola who questioned the Church's blaming of the fall of man on women since "where there is less intellect and less constancy, there is less sin" (27), introduce a theme that will be repeated in almost every essay, that is, the need for Italian women writers of all generations to defend or deny their sexual difference since they experienced the Biblical paradigm for women not only as an account of a fall from innocence but as a definition and limitation of their creative abilities.

Letizia Panizza and Sharon Wood, eds. A History of Women's Writing in Italy

Isotta Nogarola: Complete Writings is a recent and welcome addition to the University of Chicago Press series "The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe," which now includes over thirty editions of works by or pertaining to women in the early modern period.

Margaret L. King and Diana Robin, trans. Isotta Nogarola: Complete Writings. Letterbook, Dialogue on Adam and Eve, Orations

E nel giro del 28 lavorano con ottimi risultati anche personaggi nuovi: Pasquale Mari (Isotta, 1996), Antonio Baldoni (Vito e gli altri, 1991), Fabio Cianchetti (Blue Line, 1995), Marco Onorato (Allullo Drom, 1992; Torta di mele, 1993), Vittorio Bagnasco (Faccia di lepre, 1991), Roberto Forza (Punto di fuga, 1994), Maurizio Dell'Orco (Majidas, 1990; Le vigne di Melayn, 1993), Gianni Mammolotti (Empoli 1921: film in rosso e nero, 1995; Carillon, 1993), Bruno Cascio (Verso Sud, 1992), Franco Lecca (Luisa, Carla, Lorenza ...

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It tells the tragically humorous tale of Signora Isotta Barbarino, a middle-class woman on vacation at a seaside resort.