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[Introduction] 1

Il Novellino

I: [Proem]35
II: [Of the rich embassy which Prester John sent to the noble Emperor Frederick]37
III: [Of a wise Greek whom a King kept in prison, and how he judged of a courser]40
IV: [How a jongleur lamented before Alexander the conduct of a knight, to whom he had madea gift on condition that the knight should give him whatsoever Alexander might presenthim with]44
V: [How a king committed a reply to a young son of his who had to bear it to the ambassadorsof Greece]48
VI: [How it came into the mind of King David to learn the number of his subjects]50
VII: [Here it is told how the angel spoke to Solomon, and said that the Lord God would takeaway the kingdom from his son for his sins][[vi]]51
VIII: [Of the gift of a king’s son to a king of Syria who had been driven from his throne]55
IX: [Here it is treated of an argument and a judgment that took place in Alexandria]58
X: [Here it is told of a fine judgment given by the slave of Bari in a dispute betweena townsman and a pilgrim]61
XI: [Here it is told how Master Giordano was deceived by a false disciple of his]63
XII: [Here it is told of the honour that Aminadab did to King David, his rightful lord]64
XIII: [Here it is told how Antigonus reproved Alexander for having a cythera played for hisdelight]65
XIV: [How a king had a son of his brought up in a dark place, and then showed him everything,and how women pleased him most]66
XV: [How a land steward plucked out his own eye and that of his son to the end that justicemight be observed]67
XVI: [Here it is told of the great mercy wrought by Saint Paulinus the bishop]68
XVII: [Of the great act of charity which a banker did for the love of God][[vii]]69
XVIII: [Of the judgment of God on a baron of Charlemagne]69
XIX: [Of the great generosity and courtesy of the Young King]70
XX: [Of the great liberality and courtesy of the King of England]72
XXI: [How three necromancers came to the court of the Emperor Frederick]77
XXII: [How the Emperor Frederick’s goshawk escaped to Milan]80
XXIII: [How the Emperor Frederick found a countryman at a fountain and asked leave to drink,and how he took away his drinking-cup]82
XXIV: [How the Emperor Frederick put a question to two wise men, and how he rewarded them]83
XXV: [How the Sultan gave two hundred marks to a man and how his treasurer wrote down theentry in his presence]85
XXVI: [Here it is told of a burgher of France]88
XXVII: [Here it is told of a great Moaddo who was insulted]90
XXVIII: [Here it is told of a custom that existed in the kingdom of France]91
XXIX: [Here it is told how some learned astrologers disputed about the Empyrean][[viii]]92
XXX: [Here it is told how a Lombard knight squandered his substance]94
XXXI: [Here it is told of a story-teller of Messer Azzolino]95
XXXII: [Of the great deeds of prowess of Riccar Loghercio of the Isle]97
XXXIII: [Here is told a tale of Messer Imberal del Balzo]98
XXXIV: [How two noble knights loved each other with a great love]100
XXXV: [Here it is told of Master Thaddeus of Bologna]101
XXXVI: [Here it is told how a cruel king persecuted the Christians]102
XXXVII: [Here it is told of a battle between two kings of Greece]105
XXXVIII: [Of an astrologer called Melisus, who was reprimanded by a woman]106
XXXIX: [Here it is told of Bishop Aldebrandino, and how he was mocked by a friar]108
XL: [Of a minstrel whose name was Saladin]108
XLI: [A tale of Messer Polo Traversaro]110
XLII: [Here is told an excellent tale of William of Borganda of Provence]112
XLIII: [Here it is told of Messer Giacopino Rangone and what he did to a court player][[ix]]115
XLIV: [Of a question that was put to a courtier]116
XLV: [How Lancelot fought at a fountain]116
XLVI: [Here it is told how Narcissus fell in love with his own image]117
XLVII: [Here it is told how a knight asked a lady for her love]119
XLVIII: [Here it is told of King Conrady father of Conradin]119
XLIX: [Here it is told of a physician of Toulouse and how he took to wife a niece of theArchbishop of Toulouse]120
L: [Here it is told of Master Francis, son of Master Accorso of Bologna]122
LI: [Here it is told of a Gascon woman, and how she had recourse to the King of Cyprus]123
LII: [Of a bell that was ordered in King John’s days]124
LIII: [Here it is told of a privilege granted by the Emperor to one of his barons]125
LIV: [Here it is told how the parish priest Porcellino was accused]126
LV: [Here is told a tale of a man of the court whose name was Marco]128
LVI: [How a man of the Marches went to study in Bologna]129
LVII: [The Woman and the Pear-tree][[x]]130
LVIII: [The Wisest of the Beasts]134
LIX: [Here it is told of a gentleman whom the Emperor had hanged]134
LX: [Here it is told how Charles of Anjou loved a lady]137
LXI: [Here it is told of the philosopher Socrates, and how he answered the Greeks]141
LXII: [Here is told a tale of Messer Roberto]144
LXIII: [Of good King Meladius and the Knight Without Fear]146
LXIV: [A Tale told of the Court of Puy in Provence]146
LXV: [Here it is told of Queen Iseult and Messer Tristan of Lyonese]154
LXVI: [Here it is told of a philosopher who was called Diogenes]158
LXVII: [Here it is told of Papirius and how his father brought him to the council]159
LXVIII: [Of a question which a young man proposed to Aristotle]160
LXIX: [Here it is told of the great justice of the Emperor Trajan]161
LXX: [Here it is told how Hercules went into the forest]163
LXXI: [Here it is told how Seneca consoled a woman whose son had died]164
LXXII: [Here it is told how Cato lamented against fortune][[xi]]167
LXXIII: [How the Sultan being in need of money, sought to find occasion to proceed againsta Jew]168
LXXIV: [The story of a vassal and a lord]169
LXXV: [How the Lord entered into partnership with a minstrel]171
LXXVI: [Here it is told of the great killing done by King Richard]174
LXXVII: [Here is told of Messer Rinieri, a knight of the Court]175
LXXVIII: [Here is told of a philosopher much given to the vulgarisation of science]177
LXXIX: [Here it is told of a Court player who adored a lord]178
LXXX: [The Pilgrim and the Ugly Woman]181
LXXXI: [Here below it is told of the council which was held by the sons of King Priam of Troy]182
LXXXII: [Here it is told how the Lady of Shalott died for love of Lancelot of the Lake]184
LXXXIII: [How Christ going one day with his disciples in a deserted place, they saw great treasure]186
LXXXIV: [How Messer Azzolino Romano arranged a great charity]188
LXXXV: [Of a great famine that was once in Genoa]192
LXXXVI: [The Emperor and the Pilgrim][[xii]]193
LXXXVII: [How a man went to shrive himself]194
LXXXVIII: [Here is told of Messer Castellano da Cofferi of Mantua]194
LXXXIX: [Here it is told of a Court player who began a story that never ended]195
XC: [Here it is told how the emperor Frederick killed a falcon of his]196
XCI: [How a certain man confessed to a friar]197
XCII: [Here it is told of a good woman who had made a fine pie]198
XCIII: [Here it is told of a countryman who went to shrive himself]199
XCIV: [Here it is told of the fox and the mule]199
XCV: [Here it is told of a countryman who went to the town]201
XCVI: [Here it is told of Bito and Messer Frulli of San Giorgio near Florence]201
XCVII: [Here it is told how a merchant carried wine overseas in casks with two partitionsand what happened]205
XCVIII: [Here it is told of a merchant who bought caps]206
XCIX: [Here is told a pretty tale of love]207
C: [How the Emperor Frederick went to the Old Man of the Mountain] 211

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