The Decameron, Or, Ten Days' Entertainment of Boccaccio

Chatto and Windus, 1874 - 532 pages

SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF BOCCACCIO	13

INTRODUCTION	23

THE FIRST	39

Abraham the Jew at the instigation of Jeannot	51

The Marchioness of Monferrat by an entertainment	59

Gulielmo Borsiere by a few smart words checks	66

Martellino feigning himself to be a cripple pretends	75

Three young gentlemen lavish away their fortunes	83

Constantia is in love with Martuccio Gomito	271

Ricciardo Manardi is found by Lizio along with	280

Gianni di Procida is discovered with a young lady	287

19	289

Anastasio being in love with a young lady spent	296

Pietro di Vinciolo goes to sup at a friends house	304

THE SIXTH	309

Madam Nonna de Pulci silences the Bishop of Flo	314

Landolpho Ruffolo falling into poverty became a	89

Madam Beritola was found on an island with two goats	103

The Sultan of Babylon sends one of his daughters	113

The Count dAngiers being falsely accused	129

Bernard of Genoa is imposed upon by one Ambrose	140

Paganino da Monaca carries away the wife of Signior	149

THE THIRD	157

An equerry belonging to King Agilulf lies with his queen	163

A young scholar named Felix teaches one Puccio	173

Ricciardo Minutolo is in love with the wife of Philip	179

Tedaldo having a misunderstanding with his mis	185

Ferondo by taking a certain drug is buried for dead	194

Giletta de Narbonne cures the King of France of a	201

Alibech a young girl desirous of becoming a Christian	207

Tancred Prince of Salerno puts his daughters lover	215

Friar Albert makes a woman believe that an angel is	221

Three young men fall in love with three sisters	227

Isabellas brothers put her lover to death he appears	235

Girolamo is in love with Salvestra and is obliged	246

A doctors wife puts her gallant into a chest imagining	252

THE FIFTH	261

THE SEVENTH	335

Peronella puts her gallant into a tub on her husbands	340

A jealous man confesses his wife under a priests habit	348

Lodovico being in love with Beatrice she sends	356

Two inhabitants of Siena love the same woman one	372

The parson of Varlungo receives favours from a woman	378

The provost of the church of Fiesole is in love with	387

A certain scholar is in love with a widow lady named	397

Two neighbours are very intimate together when	412

A certain Sicilian damsel cheats a merchant of all	425

THE NINTH	435

Master Simon the doctor with Bruno and the rest	441

Calandrino is in love with a certain damsel when Bruno	447

Talano di Molese dreamed that a wolf tore his wifes	455

Two young men go to King Solomon for his advice	459

A certain knight in the service of the King of Spain	467

Mithridanes envied the generosity of Nathan and went	473

Dianora requires Ansaldo to present her with a garden	483

King Pietro knowing that a lady was lovesick	490

Saladin disguising himself like a merchant is gener	508

The Marquis of Saluzzo having been prevailed upon	522

Title	The Decameron, Or, Ten Days' Entertainment of Boccaccio
Author	Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher	Chatto and Windus, 1874
Original from	National Library of Israel
Digitized	27 Jan 2020
Length	532 pages

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