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 Quellen_{2} 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.]