THE FIRST FABLE. Ricardo, King of Thebes, had four daughters,
one of whom, having become a wanderer and altered her name
of Costanza to Costanzo, arrived at the court of Cacco, King
of Bettinia, who took her to wife on account of the many
worthy deeds wrought by her 167
THE SECOND FABLE. Erminione Glaucio, an Athenian, takes to
wife Filenia Centurione, and, having become jealous of her,
accuses her before the tribunal, but by the help of
Hippolito, her lover, she is acquitted and Erminione
punished 179
THE THIRD FABLE. Ancilotto, King of Provino, takes to wife the
daughter of a baker, and has by her three children. These,
after much persecution at the hands of the king’s mother,
are made known to their father through the strange working
of certain water, and of an apple, and of a bird 186
THE FOURTH FABLE. Nerino, the son of Gallese, King of
Portugal, becoming enamoured of Genobbia, wife of Messer
Raimondo Brunello, a physician, has his will of her and
carries her with him to Portugal, while Messer Raimondo dies
of grief 199
THE FIFTH FABLE. Flamminio Veraldo sets out from Ostia in
search of Death, and, not finding it, meets Life instead;
this latter lets him see Fear and make trial of Death 208