The Jew Melchisedec escapes from a trap which Saladin laid for him, by telling him a story about three rings.
Appeared in Painter's Palace of Pleasure, vol. i (1566), No. 30.
See G. Targioni-Tozzetti, Novelletta del Mago e del giudeo (Ferrara, 1869). L. Cappelletti, Commento sopra la 3a novella della prima giornata del Dec. (Bologna, 1874). A. Tobler, Li dis dou vrai aniel. Die Parabel von dem achten Ringe französische Dichtung des dreizehnten Jahrhunderts (Leipzig, 1884). G. Paris, La poésie du moyen âge, 2e série (Paris, 1903), No. 12. La parabole des trois anneaux. G. Bertino, Le diverse redazioni della Novella dei tre anelli, in Spigolature Letterarie (Sassari, Scano, 1903). T. Giannone, Una novella del B. e un dramma del Lessing (Nathan the Wise), in Rivista Abruzzese, xv (1900), p. 32 et seq.
NOVEL IV
By Dioneo
A monk who had incurred a severe punishment for an offence that he had committed, saved himself from it by convicting his abbot of the same fault.
Against the Monks.
See J. Bédier, Les fabliaux études de littérature populaire et d'histoire littéraire du moyen âge (Paris, 1893).
NOVEL V
By Fiammetta