The wife of the Duke of Saluzzo, her husband tests her virtue by claiming that her children are dead and that he's taken another lover, casting her out of the house.
Her story was taken from a French source and translated in to Latin by Petrarch, and it was from this work that Chaucer drew the inspiration to tell her story in the Canterbury Tales. The wife of the Duke of Saluzzo, her husband tests her virtue by claiming that her children are dead and that he's taken another lover, casting her out of the house. A modernized Job, she figures in The Clerk's Tale and as the heroine of the last tale of The Decameron. FTP, identify this character known for her patience.
Her story was taken from a French source and translated in to Latin by Petrarch, and it was from this work that Chaucer drew the inspiration to tell her story in the Canterbury Tales.
{Griselda}