See L. Cappelletti, La novella di Gerbino, imitazioni e raffronto, in Cronaca minima (Livorno, Aug. 14, 1887.)
NOVEL V
By Filomena
Isabella's brothers put her lover to death. He appears to her in a dream, and tells her where his body is buried; whereupon, she secretly brings away his head and buries it in a pot of basil, over which she weeps for hours every day, and when her brothers take it away she dies soon afterwards.
Appeared in Turberville's Tragical Tales (ca. 1576).
Consult T. Cannizzaro, Il lamento di Lisabetta da Messina e la leggenda del vaso di basilico (Catania, Battiato, 1902).
On the poem of Keats see U. Mengin, L'Italie des romantiques (Paris, 1902).
There is a Sicilian love song at end of this tale.
NOVEL VI