Produced by Donna Holsten
Faithfully Translated
By J.M. Rigg
with illustrations by Louis Chalon
NOVEL I. - Cimon, by loving, waxes wise, wins his wife Iphigenia bycapture on the high seas, and is imprisoned at Rhodes. He is delivered byLysimachus; and the twain capture Cassandra and recapture Iphigenia inthe hour of their marriage. They flee with their ladies to Crete, andhaving there married them, are brought back to their homes.
NOVEL II. - Gostanza loves Martuccio Gomito, and hearing that he is dead,gives way to despair, and hies her alone aboard a boat, which is waftedby the wind to Susa. She finds him alive in Tunis, and makes herselfknown to him, who, having by his counsel gained high place in the king'sfavour, marries her, and returns with her wealthy to Lipari.
NOVEL III. - Pietro Boccamazza runs away with Agnolella, and encounters agang of robbers: the girl takes refuge in a wood, and is guided to acastle. Pietro is taken, but escapes out of the hands of the robbers, andafter some adventures arrives at the castle where Agnolella is, marriesher, and returns with her to Rome.
NOVEL IV. - Ricciardo Manardi is found by Messer Lizio da Valbona withhis daughter, whom he marries, and remains at peace with her father.
NOVEL V. - Guidotto da Cremona dies leaving a girl to Giacomino da Pavia.She has two lovers in Faenza, to wit, Giannole di Severino and Minghinodi Mingole, who fight about her. She is discovered to be Giannole'ssister, and is given to Minghino to wife.
NOVEL VI. - Gianni di Procida, being found with a damsel that he loves,and who had been given to King Frederic, is bound with her to a stake, soto be burned. He is recognized by Ruggieri dell' Oria, is delivered, andmarries her.
NOVEL VII. - Teodoro, being enamoured of Violante, daughter of MesserAmerigo, his lord, gets her with child, and is sentenced to the gallows;but while he is being scourged thither, he is recognized by his father,and being set at large, takes Violante to wife.
NOVEL VIII. - Nastagio degli Onesti, loving a damsel of the Traversarifamily, by lavish expenditure gains not her love. At the instance of hiskinsfolk he hies him to Chiassi, where he sees a knight hunt a damsel andslay her and cause her to be devoured by two dogs. He bids his kinsfolkand the lady that he loves to breakfast. During the meal the said damselis torn in pieces before the eyes of the lady, who, fearing a like fate,takes Nastagio to husband.
NOVEL IX. - Federigo degli Alberighi loves and is not loved in return: hewastes his substance by lavishness until nought is left but a singlefalcon, which, his lady being come to see him at his house, he gives herto eat: she, knowing his case, changes her mind, takes him to husband andmakes him rich.
NOVEL X. - Pietro di Vinciolo goes from home to sup: his wife brings aboy into the house to bear her company: Pietro returns, and she hides hergallant under a hen-coop: Pietro explains that in the house of Ercolano,with whom he was to have supped, there was discovered a young manbestowed there by Ercolano's wife: the lady thereupon censures Ercolano'swife: but unluckily an ass treads on the fingers of the boy that ishidden under the hen-coop, so that he cries for pain: Pietro runs to theplace, sees him, and apprehends the trick played on him by h