| 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 |