One story in this work tells of a girl who plants her lover's head in a pot of basil after her three
One story in this work tells of a girl who plants her lover's head in a pot of basil after her three brothers kill him. This work inspired a similar French one by Marguerite de Navarre. In the first story from this work, a wicked notary pretends to be a virgin while giving his last confession to a friar and is revered as a saint after dying. In the final story of this work, a young nobleman pretends to kill both of his children and take a new bride in order to (*) test his wife, the patient Griselda. In this work's frame tale, a group of youths, including the author's muse Fiammetta, take refuge from the bubonic plague for ten nights. For 10 points, name this collection of one hundred stories by Giovanni Boccaccio.
One story in this work tells of a girl who plants her lover's head in a pot of basil after her three brothers kill him.
The {Decameron} [or {Il Decamerone}]