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From Tales from the Italian and Spanish, Vol. III, Stories of Humor and Adventure, The Review of Reviews Co.; New York; 1920; pp. iii-viii.

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Contents
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INTRODUCTION xi
BELPHAGOR By Niccolo Machiavelli 1
PERFIDIOUS By Gerolamo Rovetta 13
THE PATIENT WITH THE PLAGUE By Giovanni Sabbadino 31
THE WONDERFUL PARROT By Italo Mario Palmarini 36
CIACCO GETS EVEN By Giovanni Boccaccio 47
THE RETURN OF THE CORSAIR By Giovanni Boccaccio 50
SAVING THE GRAPES By Count Carlo Gozzi 55
THE COURIER’S DEFENSE By Ascanio Mori Da Ceno 60
THE JOURNEY OF THE MONK By Giovanni Bottari 66
A RESURRECTION By Anton-Francesco Doni 78
THE LOST BRACELET By Count Carlo Gozzi 81
THE GENTLEMAN BAKER By Giovanni Boccaccio 88
THE ONE WHO BBROKE THE PIPE By Emilio De Marchi 92
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THE PIOUS BRIGAND By Giovanni Boccaccio 103
THE FAITHFUL SERVANT By Marco Cademosto Da Lodi 108
THE PERSIAN PEASANT By Anonymous 114
THE THREE BLIND BEGGARS By Franco Sacchetti 117
THE DUTIFUL SON By Franco Sacchetti 123
THE THIEF AND THE CAVALIER By Luigi Sanvitale 126
THE INTERLOPER By Girolamo Parabosco 128
THE BANDIT CHIEF By Giovanni Battista Giraldi Cinthio 135
THE TEACHER TAUGHT By Ser Giovanni Fiorentino 140
THE FEARSOME MAN By Franco Sacchetti 152
THE ESCAPE FROM THE TOMB By Giovanni Boccaccio 157
FUNERAL EULOGIES By Emilio De Marchi 169
CALANDRINO’S MISTAKE By Giovanni Boccaccio 180
CALANDRINO’S PIG By Giovanni Boccaccio 187
ALIMEK By Francesco Soave 193
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THE DISGUISE By Matteo Bandello 204
TWO CAPONS FOR NOTHING By Alessandro Sozzini 210
TURLENDANA RETURNS By Gabriele D’Annunzio 213
THE GENTLE ART OF LYING By Ortensio Lando 224
A FIFTEENTH CENTURY SPIRITUALIST By Masuccio of Salerno 230
CURRADO’S COOK By Giovanni Boccaccio 241
THE GALLOW’S GHOST By Anton-Francesco Grazzini 244
MARTELLINO ESCAPES DE By Giovanni Boccaccio 248
ON THE HOUSETOP By Neera 253
THE BELOVED WIFE By Masuccio of Salerno 267
THE SORCERER By Grazia Deledda 273
THE LOST PURSE By Giovanni Battista Giraldi Cinthio 279
THE WOODCUTTER’S ASS By Michele Colombo 283
R. SCHUMANN: OP. 68 By Antonio Fogazzaro 293
THE SHOUTING CORPSE By Masuccio of Salerno 300
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THE FOUNTAIN OF PIETRARSA By Renato Fucini 305
THE ALCHEMIST By Celio Malespini 313
A PROVINCIAL FAMILY FEUD By Matilde Serao 323
AN ITALIAN LEAR By Giovanni Brevio 329
MAKING THE WILL DE By Giovan-Francesco Straparola 335
EDEN ANTO By Antonio Fogazzaro 342
THE FAT EBONY CARVER By Anonymous 360
THE COLONEL By Renato Fucini 374
THE INSTRUCTION BETTERED By Girolamo Parabosco 386
THE CARES OF PROSPERITY By Luigi Capuana 391





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“Brunetta . . . earnestly begged of him to give
her a leg”
Frontispiece
“Lucia had a sister-in-law, the Marchesa Giulia, who was also, in a different type of beauty, a star of the first magnitude” 14
“It happened that they passed on foot every morning by the church where Cisti the baker dwelt” 89
“Bringing thither the halt, lame, and blind, in expectation that, by the touch of it, they would all recover” 248

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THE publishers desire to express their grateful acknowledgment for permission to use in this volume the following material copyrighted by Doubleday, Page and Company.

The Wonderful Parrot, by Italio Mario Palmarini; A Provincial Family Feud, by Matilde Serao.

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