The Decameron Labyrinth
Beginneth here the book called Decameron, otherwise Prince Galeotto, wherein are contained one hundred novels told in ten days by seven ladies and three young men . . .
'Tis humane to have compassion on the afflicted, and as it shews well in all, so it is especially demanded of those who have had need of comfort and have found it in others
As often, most gracious ladies, as I bethink me, how compassionate you are by nature one and all, I do not disguise from myself that the present work must seem to you to have but a heavy and distressful prelude, in that it bears upon its very front what must needs revive the sorrowful memory of the late mortal pestilence . . .
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First Day, Introduction
Ser Ciappelletto cheats a holy friar by a false confession, and dies; and, having lived as a very bad man, is, on his death, reputed a saint, and called San Ciappelletto.
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First Day, Novel I
Abraham, a Jew, at the instance of Jehannot de Chevigny, goes to the court of Rome, and having marked the evil life of the clergy, returns to Paris, and becomes a Christian.
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First Day, Novel II
Melchisedech, a Jew, by a story of three rings averts a great danger with which he was menaced by Saladin.
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First Day, Novel III
A monk lapses into a sin meriting the most severe punishment, justly censures the same fault in his abbot, and thus evades the penalty.
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First Day, Novel IV
The Marchioness of Monferrato by a banquet of hens seasoned with wit checks the mad passion of the King of France.
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First Day, Novel V
A worthy man by an apt saying puts to shame the wicked hypocrisy of the religious.
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First Day, Novel VI
Bergamino, with a story of Primasso and the Abbot of Cluny, finely censures a sudden access of avarice in Messer Cane della Scala.
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First Day, Novel VII
Guglielmo Borsiere by a neat retort sharply censures avarice in Messer Ermino de' Grimaldi.
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First Day, Novel VIII
The censure of a Gascon lady converts the King of Cyprus from a churlish to an honourable temper.
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First Day, Novel IX
Master Alberto da Bologna honourably puts to shame a lady who sought occasion to put him to shame in that he was in love with her.
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First Day, Novel X
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Garden cloister based in photogrammetry scan by Miguel Bandera, an example …
