Property:Has Note On Motif
From The Seven Sages of Rome
This is a property of type Text.
A
Notes on several of the manuscripts specifically reference the revelation of the queen's lover's body, described in one catalogue (for the Vienna Mekhitarist Monastery Library manuscript 286) as 'the young man in women's clothes'. Whether this is paraphrasing the text or describing an illustration is unclear. +
E
In this iteration of the narrative, the empress kills herself before her lover can be revealed. They are instead mentioned after the fact, in typically confusing language:
"One of [the Empress's] Ladies, that used to Lye with the Queen, the Prince would needs have uncloathed in the Royal Presence, who appearing to be a Man, gave a sufficient Testimony of his Mistresses Morals." +
H
The key distinguishing features of the ''Historia'' include the public revelation of the Empress's disguised lover (who is publicly stripped). +