LA CITTÀ DELLE DAME LA SOVRANITÀ CTONIA DECLINATA AL FEMMINILE FRA L'IRLANDA E I MONTI SIBILLINI.

This study's subject is the motif of «royal goddess», who dispenses wealth and power to the men if they agree to become her husbands. In this case this motif is analysed through the reading interpretation and the collation of some literary works different as regards language, genre and content: four versions of a visio in which a knight named Ludovico goes in Ireland to visit saint Patrick's Purgatory, the poem of Huon d'Auvergne, an episode of the Antoine de la Sale's Salade, the Andrea da Barberino's Guerrin Meschino. They have in common the peculiarity that they all attribute infernal features to the enchanted kingdom of this fairy queen. The different ways to treat this motif and its trasformations in connection with the character of each work can help us to understand on the one hand the reciprocal relationships among these works, on the other hand how this motif has changed its meaning and its functions to be compatible with the description of the Other World given by Dante in his Comedia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]