The Book of the City of Ladies Loyalty Quotes

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Quote #10

[Hero] saw her lover's dead body floating on top of the waves and, having no desire to live on after him, she threw herself into the sea. (2.58.1)

Some women in de Pizan's book are so loyal that they kill themselves when their husbands die because they don't want to live without them. If there's a more drastic way of showing loyalty, we don't know what it is.