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Tale Summary This tale is a twist on the one previously told, in which the character described is a victim caught between a city prætor and thief, and now focuses on his own fast-thinking. The village church of Postema is served by the avaricious

Tale Summary Tebaldo, Prince of Salermo, has a beautiful and wise wife who dies and instructs him not to marry someone whose finger does not fit her own ring. After sending home every woman who courted him, his own daughter, Doralice, finds the ring

Tale Summary A handsome young robber named Cassandrino in the city of Romagna, Perugia, is so magnanimous in offering gifts that come of his thieving, that the city prætor is reluctant to punish him. Taken with Cassandrino, the prætor believes his

Tale Summary A wealthy Genoese by the name of Rainaldo Scaglia dies after leaving his beloved son Salardo all of his possessions, begging him to abide by 3 precepts: Never trust his wife with an important secret, nor adopt another man’s son, nor

Tale Summary King Luciano rules the island of Capraia, and has a single daughter named Luciana, age 10. The palace is opposite to the cottage of a widow, Isotta, and her son, Peter the Fool, a fisher-lad. The princess is taken with his antics,

Tale Summary Gaelotto, noble King of Anglia, and his wife Ersilia are unable to conceive. The queen falls asleep in her garden and is visited by three faeries, who cast spells on her, making it so that she will conceive, that her son will be