Opening of the book
Transcriber's Notes:
The original text does not observe the normal convention of placing quotation marks at the beginnings of paragraphs within a multiple-paragraph quotation. This idiosyncrasy has been preserved in this e-text.
Archaic spellings have been preserved, but obvious printer errors have been corrected.
In the untranslated Italian passage in Day 3, Story 10, the original is missing the accents, which have been added using an Italian edition of Decameron (Milan: Mursia,
1977) as a guide.
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John Payne's translation of The Decameron was originally published in a private printing for The Villon Society,
London, 1886. The American edition from which this etext was prepared is undated.
The
Decameron
of
Giovanni Boccaccio
Translated by
John Payne
WALTER J. BLACK, INC.
171 Madison Avenue
NEW YORK, N.Y.
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Contents
PROEM.
DAY THE FIRST 1
Tƒŧ FƗǡǪǵ SǵLjǡΏ. Master Ciappelletto dupeth a holy friar with a false confession and dieth; and having been in his lifetime the worst of men, he is, after his death, reputed a saint and called Saint Ciappelletto 16
Tƒŧ SŧŕLjƿŠ SǵLjǡΏ. Abraham the Jew, at the instigation of Jehannot de
Chevigné, goeth to the Court of Rome and seeing the depravity of the clergy, returneth to Paris and there becometh a Christian 25
Tƒŧ TƒƗǡŠ SǵLjǡΏ. Melchizedek the Jew, with a story of three rings, escapeth a parlous snare set for him by Saladin 28
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