[Source.—Pedro di Messia, Selva di varie Lezzioni, i. 34.
Origin.—St. Jerome.
Painter, I. i. 59; II. i. 55; III. i. 100; IV. i. 114.]
[ XXX. The Three Rings.]
How Melchisedech a iewe, by telling a pretie tale of three Ringes, saued his life.
[Source.—Boccaccio, Decameron, giorn. i., nov. 3.
Origin.—Cento novelle antichi, 72 (through Busone), L’avventuroso Ciciliano; cf. Landau, Die Quellen2 183. Probably original source was Jewish. Cf. G. Paris in Revue des études juives, t. xvii., and A. Wünsche in Lessing-Mendelssohn Gedenkbuch.
Parallels.—Med.: Shebet Jehuda (Heb.), Gesta Rom. 89. Lessing, Nathan der Weise.
Painter.—I. i. 60; II. i. 56; III. i. 102; IV. i. 116.]