In a story in this collection, a man pretends to be a cripple so that he and his two companions can easily make their way through a crowd to see a German saint.
In a story in this collection, a man pretends to be a cripple so that he and his two companions can easily make their way through a crowd to see a German saint. An overly generous man in this collection befriends a sickly boy who covets his prized falcon, which he later cooks and serves to the boy's mother. In the first story in this collection, a terminally ill businessman travels to Burgundy and is made a saint after he convinces a gullible friar that he is sorry for his many sins. In a story in this collection, a woman is made (*) Marchioness after her children are taken away and supposedly killed by her husband, the Marquis of Saluzzo. Dioneo, Pampinea, and Fiammetta narrate the tales in this collection, which are told in a villa outside Florence. For 10 points, name this collection of a hundred tales written by Giovanni Boccaccio.
In a story in this collection, a man pretends to be a cripple so that he and his two companions can easily make their way through a crowd to see a German saint.
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