The Fancies, Chast and Noble: The Renaissance Imagination: A critical edition

Published in 1985: The main plot portrays the bachelor Octavio, Marquis of Siena, and his establishment of his Bower of Fancies, something like a Platonic academy for those he calls the fancies - Clarella, Silvia, and Floria, three young women who are, or are said to be, young, wise, noble, fair, and chaste.