The Decameron, vol. 2 by Giovanni Boccaccio
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Title: The Decameron, Vol. II.
Author: Giovanni Boccaccio
Release Date: August 3, 2004 [EBook #13102]
Language: English
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THE DECAMERON
OF
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO
Faithfully Translated
By J.M. Rigg
with illustrations by Louis Chalon
VOLUME II
CONTENTS
- FIFTH DAY -
NOVEL I. - Cimon, by loving, waxes wise, wins his wife Iphigenia by capture on the high seas, and is imprisoned at Rhodes. He is delivered by Lysimachus; and the twain capture Cassandra and recapture Iphigenia in the hour of their marriage. They flee with their ladies to Crete, and having there married them, are brought back to their homes.
NOVEL II. - Gostanza loves Martuccio Gomito, and hearing that he is dead, gives way to despair, and hies her alone aboard a boat, which is wafted by the wind to Susa. She finds him alive in Tunis, and makes herself known to him, who, having by his counsel gained high place in the king's favour, marries her, and returns with her wealthy to Lipari.
NOVEL III. - Pietro Boccamazza runs away with Agnolella, and encounters a gang of robbers: the