Another of its characters tells his niece not to look at herself in the mirror if she doesn't want to see ugly people.
In this book, a character ties a string to her toe so her lover can pull it, while another character is forced to eat aloe as an ordeal after his pig is stolen. Another of its characters tells his niece not to look at herself in the mirror if she doesn't want to see ugly people. This book features a pair of characters who die by rubbing sage against their teeth and another who buries her lover's head in a (*) pot of basil. In one of this work's stories, a man lies to a friar on his deathbed and is thus revered as a saint; Gualtieri convinces his wife that he has killed their children just to test her patience. This work includes stories about Ciappelletto (CHEE-uh-PUH-let-oh) and "the patient Griselda" and features such narrators as Fiammetta, Pampinea, and Dioneo. For 10 points, name this collection in which nobles tell stories to pass time while escaping the Black Death, written by Giovanni Boccaccio.
In this book, a character ties a string to her toe so her lover can pull it, while another character is forced to eat aloe as an ordeal after his pig is stolen.
The Decameron