Isabella

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Isabella is the tragic heroine of John Keats’s narrative poem “Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil,” known for her doomed love and macabre devotion to her murdered lover.

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Isabella canonical 6

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character
literary character
tragic heroine
appearsIn Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil
associatedArtMovement Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (through later depictions)
associatedObject pot of basil
basedOn Decameron
linked to: The Decameron
basedOnStoryBy Giovanni Boccaccio
causeOfSuffering murder of Lorenzo
centralTheme class conflict
family tyranny
loss
love
mourning
countryOfOriginOfWork United Kingdom
createdBy John Keats
emotionalState overwhelming grief
firstPublicationFormOfWork poetry collection
genreOfWork narrative poem
hasCharacterRole protagonist
hasFamilyRelation sister of wealthy merchants
hasLover Lorenzo
hasRelationshipType doomed love
hasTrait devoted
loyal
melancholic
obsessive
passionate
hidesRelicIn pot of basil
inspiredLaterWork Isabella (painting) by John Everett Millais
The Pot of Basil (painting) by William Holman Hunt
isInLoveWith Lorenzo
keepsRelicOfLover Lorenzo’s severed head
languageOfWork English
literaryMotif female suffering under patriarchal control
secret burial of lover
severed head as relic of love
literaryPeriodOfWork Romanticism
modeOfDevotion macabre devotion to murdered lover
nameInOriginalWork Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil
narrativeFunction victim of family violence
narrativeOutcome death from grief
perpetratorsOfLover’sMurder her brothers
settingOfStory Italy
socialStatus young woman of merchant family
symbolicAssociation basil as symbol of mourning
pot of basil as shrine to love
workFirstPublishedIn Poems (1820) by John Keats

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Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil mainCharacter Isabella
Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil hasTitleCharacter Isabella
Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil alternateTitle Isabella
Boccaccio character Isabella
subject linked to: "Boccaccio" by Franz von Suppé