One character in this work gets the daughter of a noble family to marry him by showing her the ghost ofa suicidal knight ritually killing and disemboweling the ghost of his dead lover. Another character visits herlover to borrow a falcon and save her son, only to be served that falcon for dinner. In this work, the worstman in the world becomes revered as a saint after admitting only minor sins in his deathbed confession.The last section of this work inspired Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale" with its tale of patient Griselda, and its framestory describes a brigata of nobles including Fiammetta and Dioneo. For 10 points, name t
One character in this work gets the daughter of a noble family to marry him by showing her the ghost ofa suicidal knight ritually killing and disemboweling the ghost of his dead lover. Another character visits herlover to borrow a falcon and save her son, only to be served that falcon for dinner. In this work, the worstman in the world becomes revered as a saint after admitting only minor sins in his deathbed confession.The last section of this work inspired Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale" with its tale of patient Griselda, and its framestory describes a brigata of nobles including Fiammetta and Dioneo. For 10 points, name this collection ofstories by Italian humanist Giovanni Boccaccio.
One character in this work gets the daughter of a noble family to marry him by showing her the ghost ofa suicidal knight ritually killing and disemboweling the ghost of his dead lover.
The Decameron [or Il Decameron]