{"product_id":"2940012476838","title":"The Decameron Volume II","description":"- FIFTH DAY -\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNOVEL I. - Cimon, by loving, waxes wise, wins his wife Iphigenia by\u003cbr\u003ecapture on the high seas, and is imprisoned at Rhodes. He is delivered by\u003cbr\u003eLysimachus; and the twain capture Cassandra and recapture Iphigenia in\u003cbr\u003ethe hour of their marriage. They flee with their ladies to Crete, and\u003cbr\u003ehaving there married them, are brought back to their homes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNOVEL II. - Gostanza loves Martuccio Gomito, and hearing that he is dead,\u003cbr\u003egives way to despair, and hies her alone aboard a boat, which is wafted\u003cbr\u003eby the wind to Susa. She finds him alive in Tunis, and makes herself\u003cbr\u003eknown to him, who, having by his counsel gained high place in the king's\u003cbr\u003efavour, marries her, and returns with her wealthy to Lipari.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNOVEL III. - Pietro Boccamazza runs away with Agnolella, and encounters a\u003cbr\u003egang of robbers: the girl takes refuge in a wood, and is guided to a\u003cbr\u003ecastle. Pietro is taken, but escapes out of the hands of the robbers, and\u003cbr\u003eafter some adventures arrives at the castle where Agnolella is, marries\u003cbr\u003eher, and returns with her to Rome.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNOVEL IV. - Ricciardo Manardi is found by Messer Lizio da Valbona with\u003cbr\u003ehis daughter, whom he marries, and remains at peace with her father.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNOVEL V. - Guidotto da Cremona dies leaving a girl to Giacomino da Pavia.\u003cbr\u003eShe has two lovers in Faenza, to wit, Giannole di Severino and Minghino\u003cbr\u003edi Mingole, who fight about her. She is discovered to be Giannole's\u003cbr\u003esister, and is given to Minghino to wife.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNOVEL VI. - Gianni di Procida, being found with a damsel that he loves,\u003cbr\u003eand who had been given to King Frederic, is bound with her to a stake, so\u003cbr\u003eto be burned. He is recognized by Ruggieri dell' Oria, is delivered, and\u003cbr\u003emarries her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNOVEL VII. - Teodoro, being enamoured of Violante, daughter of Messer\u003cbr\u003eAmerigo, his lord, gets her with child, and is sentenced to the gallows;\u003cbr\u003ebut while he is being scourged thither, he is recognized by his father,\u003cbr\u003eand being set at large, takes Violante to wife.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNOVEL VIII. - Nastagio degli Onesti, loving a damsel of the Traversari\u003cbr\u003efamily, by lavish expenditure gains not her love. At the instance of his\u003cbr\u003ekinsfolk he hies him to Chiassi, where he sees a knight hunt a damsel and\u003cbr\u003eslay her and cause her to be devoured by two dogs. He bids his kinsfolk\u003cbr\u003eand the lady that he loves to breakfast. During the meal the said damsel\u003cbr\u003eis torn in pieces before the eyes of the lady, who, fearing a like fate,\u003cbr\u003etakes Nastagio to husband.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNOVEL IX. - Federigo degli Alberighi loves and is not loved in return: he\u003cbr\u003ewastes his substance by lavishness until nought is left but a single\u003cbr\u003efalcon, which, his lady being come to see him at his house, he gives her\u003cbr\u003eto eat: she, knowing his case, changes her mind, takes him to husband and\u003cbr\u003emakes him rich.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNOVEL X. - Pietro di Vinciolo goes from home to sup: his wife brings a\u003cbr\u003eboy into the house to bear her company: Pietro returns, and she hides her\u003cbr\u003egallant under a hen-coop: Pietro explains that in the house of Ercolano,\u003cbr\u003ewith whom he was to have supped, there was discovered a young man\u003cbr\u003ebestowed there by Ercolano's wife: the lady thereupon censures Ercolano's\u003cbr\u003ewife: but unluckily an ass treads on the fingers of the boy that is\u003cbr\u003ehidden under the hen-coop, so that he cries for pain: Pietro runs to the\u003cbr\u003eplace, sees him, and apprehends the trick played on him by his wife,\u003cbr\u003ewhich nevertheless he finally condones, for that he is not himself free\u003cbr\u003efrom blame.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- SIXTH DAY -\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNOVEL I. - A knight offers to carry Madonna Oretta a horseback with a\u003cbr\u003estory, but tells it so ill that she prays him to dismount her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNOVEL II. - Cisti, a baker, by an apt speech gives Messer Geri Spina to\u003cbr\u003eknow that he has by inadvertence asked that of him which he should not.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNOVEL III. - Monna Nonna de' Pulci by a ready retort silences the scarce\u003cbr\u003eseemly jesting of the Bishop of Florence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNOVEL IV. - Chichibio, cook to Currado Gianfigliazzi, owes his safety to\u003cbr\u003ea ready answer, whereby he converts Currado's wrath into laughter, and\u003cbr\u003eevades the evil fate with which Currado had threatened him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNOVEL V. - Messer Forese da Rabatta and Master Giotto, the painter,\u003cbr\u003ejourneying together from Mugello, deride one another's scurvy appearance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNOVEL VI. - Michele Scalza proves to certain young men that the Baronci\u003cbr\u003eare the best gentlemen in the world and the Maremma, and wins a supper.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNOVEL VII. - Madonna Filippa, being found by her husband with her lover,\u003cbr\u003eis cited before the court, and by a ready and jocund answer acquits\u003cbr\u003eherself, and brings about an alteration of the statute.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNOVEL VIII. - Fresco admonishes his niece not to look at herself in the\u003cbr\u003eglass, if 'tis, as she says, grievous to her to see nasty folk.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152553591024,"sku":"2940012476838","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012476838_p0.jpg?v=1763569525","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012476838","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}