In the prologue to The Legend of Good Women, Cupid denounces the narrator for writing about this character’s infidelity and translating The Romance of the Rose. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this character who betrays her lover for Diomedes and fails to return to Troy after ten days as promised while a prisoner of war to the Greeks.
ANSWER: Criseyde [or Cressida or Criseida or Cresseid; reject “Griselda”]
[10e] As penance for his depiction of her in Troilus and Criseyde, this author wrote about the stories of virtuous women in The Legend of Good Women.
ANSWER: Geoffrey Chaucer
[10h] Critics often debate the religious meaning of Troilus’s ascension to this sphere of heaven after his death. In Paradiso, St. Peter questions Dante on faith, hope, and love in this sphere home to the Virgin Mary and the other saints. You may give the number or astronomical objects associated with it.
ANSWER: the eighth sphere [or the sphere of Fixed Stars]
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