The Decameron: Or Ten Days' Entertainment of Boccaccio

H. G. Bohn, 1855 - 545 pages

Page	1

FIRST	11

Abraham the Jew at the instigation of Jeannot	23

A Monk having committed an offence for which	29

V	32

Bergamino by telling a tale of a certain witty person	36

Master Albert of Bologna puts a lady to the blush	42

Martellino feigning to be a cripple pretends to be cured	48

Constantia is in love with Martuccio Gomito and hear	259

Ricciardo Manardi is found by Lizio along with	269

Gianni di Procida is discovered with a young lady	277

Anastasio being in love with a young lady spent	286

Pietro di Vinciolo goes to sup at a friends house	296

SIXTH	303

Cisti the baker by a smart reply makes Signor Geri	306

Michael Scalza proves to certain young gentlemen	314

Three young gentlemen squander their fortunes and	57

Landolfo Ruffolo falling into poverty became a pirate	63

Madam Beritola was found on an island with two goats	77

The Sultan of Babylon sends one of his daughters	89

The Count dAngiers being falsely accused is banished	106

Bernard of Genoa is imposed upon by one Ambrose	117

Paganino de Monaco carries away the wife of Signor	127

THIRD DAY	134

An equerry belonging to King Agilulf lay with	142

A young scholar named Felix teaches one Puccio	153

Ricciardo Minutolo is in love with the wife of Philip	161

Tedaldo having a misunderstanding with his mistress	167

Ferondo by taking a certain drug is buried for dead	177

Gillette de Narbonne cures the King of France of	184

Alibech a young convert to Christianity goes into	191

FOURTH	199

Friar Albert makes a woman believe that an angel is	206

Three young men fall in love with three sisters	214

Isabellas brothers put her lover to death he appears	223

A young lady named Andrevuola is in love with	226

Girolamo is in love with Salvestra and is obliged	234

A doctors wife puts her gallant into a chest imagining	241

FIFTH	250

Friar Onion promises some country people to show them	321

SEVENTH	332

Friar Rinaldo has an affair with a lady in the neigh	339

A woman who had a very jealous husband tied	359

Lydia the wife of Nicostratus being in love with	365

Two inhabitants of Siena love the same woman one	372

The parson of Varlungo receives favours from a woman	378

scolds him and he beats her for it and then tells his com	383

Three young sparks play a trick with a judge whilst	392

A certain scholar is in love with a widow lady named	399

Two neighbours are very intimate together when	415

A certain Sicilian damsel cheats a merchant of all	429

NINTH	439

Fortarrigo played away all that he had at Buoncon	449

Two young gentlemen lie at an inn one of whom goes	457

Biondello imposes upon one Ciacco with regard to	463

Donno Granni undertakes to transform his gossip	469

Ghino di Tacco takes the abbot of Cligni prisoner	477

Signor Gentil de Carisendi takes a lady out of	486

King Pietro knowing that a lady was lovesick	499

Saladin disguising himself like a merchant is gene	518

The Marquis of Saluzzo having been prevailed upon	532

Title	The Decameron: Or Ten Days' Entertainment of Boccaccio Bohn's extra volume
Author	Giovanni Boccaccio
Translated by	Walter Keating Kelly
Publisher	H. G. Bohn, 1855
Original from	Princeton University
Digitized	25 Feb 2009
Length	545 pages

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