The nights of Straparola, volume 1 [of 2]

Name: The nights of Straparola, volume 1 [of 2]
Author: Straparola, Giovanni Francesco

Straparola, Giovanni Francesco

Fairy tales -- Italy; Tales -- Italy

THE FIFTH FABLE. Isotta, the wife of Lucaferro Albani of
       Bergamo, devises how she may trick Travaglino the cowherd of
       her brother Emilliano and thereby show him to be a liar, but
       she loses her husband’s farm and returns home worsted in her
       attempt, and bringing with her a bull’s head with gilded
       horns                                                         152


 NIGHT THE FOURTH                                                    163

     THE FIRST FABLE. Ricardo, King of Thebes, had four daughters,
       one of whom, having become a wanderer and altered her name
       of Costanza to Costanzo, arrived at the court of Cacco, King
       of Bettinia, who took her to wife on account of the many
       worthy deeds wrought by her                                   167

     THE SECOND FABLE. Erminione Glaucio, an Athenian, takes to
       wife Filenia Centurione, and, having become jealous of her,
       accuses her before the tribunal, but by the help of
       Hippolito, her lover, she is acquitted and Erminione
       punished                                                      179

     THE THIRD FABLE. Ancilotto, King of Provino, takes to wife the
       daughter of a baker, and has by her three children. These,
       after much persecution at the hands of the king’s mother,
       are made known to their father through the strange working
       of certain water, and of an apple, and of a bird              186

     THE FOURTH FABLE. Nerino, the son of Gallese, King of
       Portugal, becoming enamoured of Genobbia, wife of Messer
       Raimondo Brunello, a physician, has his will of her and
       carries her with him to Portugal, while Messer Raimondo dies
       of grief                                                      199

     THE FIFTH FABLE. Flamminio Veraldo sets out from Ostia in
       search of Death, and, not finding it, meets Life instead;
       this latter lets him see Fear and make trial of Death         208


 NIGHT THE FIFTH                                                     217

     THE FIRST FABLE. Guerrino, only son of Filippomaria, King of
       Sicily, sets free from his father’s prison a certain savage
       man. His mother, through fear of the king, drives her son
       into exile, and him the savage man, now humanized, delivers
       from many and measureless ills                                221

     THE SECOND FABLE. Adamantina, the daughter of Bagolana
       Savonese, by the working of a certain doll becomes the wife
       of Drusiano, King of Bohemia                                  236

     THE THIRD FABLE. Bertholdo of Valsabbia has three sons, all of
       them hunchbacks and much alike in seeming. One of them,
       called Zambo, goes out into the world to seek his fortune,
       and arrives at Rome, where he is killed and thrown into the
       Tiber, together with his two brothers                         245

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