In one part of this text, a king goes from bed to bed feeling the hearts of various men to see which of them slept with his queen before shearing the culprit's head.
In one part of this text, a king goes from bed to bed feeling the hearts of various men to see which of them slept with his queen before shearing the culprit's head. In another section of this text, a group of women ask a girl "how the Devil was put in hell" after she wanders into the desert, where she is taught to throw herself naked on her knees by the hermit Rustico. One character in this text lies to a friar while he is administering (*) last rites, leading the town to revere him after his death. In the final story of this collection, Dioneo tells of a man who disguises his daughter as his new bride to test his wife Griselda. For 10 points, name this collection of stories told by Florentines fleeing the Black Death written by Giovanni Boccaccio.
In one part of this text, a king goes from bed to bed feeling the hearts of various men to see which of them slept with his queen before shearing the culprit's head.
The Decameron 