Camiola Explained

Camiola Turinga was a Sicilian woman who was the wife of Roland of Sicily.

References

• Shakespeare's Heroines: Characteristics of Women, Moral, Poetical,Shakespeare's Heroines: Characteristics of Women, Moral, and Poetical, pp. 59–62, By Jameson Anna
• Noble Deeds of Woman; Or, Examples of Female Courage and Virtue By Elizabeth Starling, p. 357, Hale and Whiting (1881), original at New York public library.
• A Serious Occupation: Literary Criticism by Victorian Women Writers By Solveig C. Robinson, pp. 19–21, Broadview Press (2003),
• The Myth of Pope Joan By Alain Boureau, p. 209, translated by Lydia G. Cochrane, Published 2001, University of Chicago Press,
• Virginia Brown's translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's Famous Women, pp 223 – 229; Harvard University Press, 2001;
• Ghisalberti, Alberto M. Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani: III Ammirato – Arcoleo. Rome, 1961.

Other uses

The English playwright Philip Massinger based one of his best characters of The Maid of Honour on Boccaccio's heroine Camiola.