Another of its stories concerns the Marquis of Saluzzo who tricks Griselda into thinking her two children are dead, inspiring Chaucer's Clerk's Tale .
In one story from this work, a man who spends all of his money wooing his lover is forced to cook his prized falcon when he has her over for supper. In another of its stories, Alessandro runs the businesses of his uncles in London before traveling to Rome to get the pope's permission to marry the princess of England. Other works in this collection include one in which the generous Nathan is stabbed by Mitridanes, and one which inspired Lessing in which Melchizedek tells Saladin the story of the three rings when asked which religion is the truth. Another of its stories concerns the Marquis of Saluzzo who tricks Griselda into thinking her two children are dead, inspiring Chaucer's Clerk's Tale . For 10 points, name this collection in which Panfilo, Fiametta, and eight other Florentines tell ten stories each while escaping the plague, a work of Boccaccio.
In one story from this work, a man who spends all of his money wooing his lover is forced to cook his prized falcon when he has her over for supper.
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