The Decameron, Volume 1

Giovanni Boccaccio

H. F. Bumpus, 1906

Contents

• FIRST: 4
• Ser Ciappelletto cheats a holy friar by a false confession: 22
• Melchisedech a Jew by a story of three rings averts: 37
• A monk lapses into a sin meriting the most severe punish: 41
• A worthy man by an apt saying puts to shame the wicked: 48
• Guglielmo Borsiere by a neat retort sharply censures: 56
• lady who sought occasion to put him to shame in that he was: 61
• SECOND DAY: 67
• Rinaldo dAsti is robbed arrives at Castel Guglielmo: 73
• Landolfo Ruffolo is reduced to poverty turns corsair: 87
• Madam Beritola loses two sons is found with two kids: 104
• The Soldan of Babylon sends one of his daughters over: 117
• Bernaḅ of Genoa deceived by Ambrogiuolo loses: 152
• Paganino da Monaco carries off the wife of Messer: 164
• THIRD: 175
• Under cloak of confession and a most spotless conscience: 189
• Dom Felice instructs Fra Puccio how to attain blessedness: 198
• and knowing her to be jealous makes her believe that his own wife: 209
• Tedaldo being in disfavour with his lady departs from: 217
• NOVEL VIII Ferondo having taken a certain powder is interred: 232
• Gillette of Narbonne cures the King of France of: 241
• Alibech turns hermit and is taught by Rustico a monk: 250
• FOURTH DAY: 258
• Fra Alberto gives a lady to understand that she is beloved: 275
• Crete The eldest of the sisters slays her lover for jealousy: 284
• Gerbino in breach of the plighted faith of his grandfather: 291
• he appears to her in: 296
• she tells him a dream that: 302
• yielding to his mothers: 313
• The wife of a leech deeming her lover who has taken: 322

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Decameron, Volume 1; The Decameron, James Macmullen Rigg
• Author: Giovanni Boccaccio
• Translated by: James Macmullen Rigg
• Illustrated by: Louis Chalon
• Publisher: H. F. Bumpus, 1906
• Original from: University of California, Berkeley
• Digitized: Jan 27, 2016