Decamoran by Giovanni Boccaccio

Decamoran was written in 1350 - 1353 by Giovanni Boccaccio, book was surnamed Prince Galahalt.  Contains 100 stories in 10 days, told by 7 ladies and 3 young men.
Important historical document of life in the 14th century. Influenced Geoffrey Chaucer.

The First Story
Day the First
Master Ciappeppetto 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.

The Second Story
Day the First
Abraham the Jew, at the instigation of Jehannot de Chevign, goeth to the court of Rome and seeing the depravity of the clergy, returneth to Paris and there becometh a Christian.

The Third Story
Day the First
Melchizedek the Jew, with a story of 3 rings, escapeth a parlous snare set for him by Saladin.

The Fourth Story
Day the First
A monk, having fallen into a sin deserving of very grievous punishment, adroitly reproaching the same fault to his Abbot, quitteth himself of the penalty.

The Fifth Story
Day the First
The MArchioness of Monferrato, with a dinner of hens and certain sprightly words, curbeth the extravagant passion of the King of France.

The Sixth Story
Day the First
An honest man, with a chance pleasantry, putteth to shame the perverse hypocrisy of the religious orders.

The Seventh Story
Day the First
Bergamino, with a story of Priomasso and the Abbott of Cluny, courteously rebuketh a fit of parsimony newly come to Messer Cane della Scala.

The Eighth Story
Day the First
Guglielmo Borsiere with some quaint words rebuketh the niggardliness of Messer Ermino de Grimaldi.

The Ninth Story
Day the First
The King of Cyprus, touched to the quick by a Gascon lady, from a mean-spirited prince becometh a man of worth and valiance.

The Tenth Story
Day the First
Master Alberto of Bologna civilly putteth a lady to the blush who thought to have shamed him of being enamoured of her.

DAY THE SECOND
Those who after being baffled by divers chances have won at last to a joyful issue beyond thir hope.

The First Story
Day the Second
Martellino feigneth himself a cripple and maketh believe to wax whole upon the body of St. Arrigo his imposture being discovered, he is beaten and being after taken (for a thief), goeth in peril of being hanged by the neck, but ultimately escapeth.

The Second Story
Day the Second
Rinaldo D'Asti, having been robbed, maketh his way to Castel Gugliemo, where he is hospitably entertained by a widow lady and having made good his loss, returneth to his own house, safe and sound.

The Third Story
Day the Second
Three young men squander their substance and become poor; but a nephew of theirs, returning home in desparation, falleth in with an Abbot and findeth him to be the King's daughter of England, who taketh him to husband and maketh good all his uncles' losses, restoring them to good estate.

The Fourth Story
Day the SecondLandolfo Ruffolo, grown poor, turneth Corsair and being taken by the Genose, is wrecked at sea, but saveth himself upon a coffer full of jewels of price and being entertained in Corfu by a woman, returneth home rich.

The Fifth Story
Day the Second
Andreuccio of Perugia, coming to Naples to buy horses, is in one night overtaken with three grievous accidents, but escapeth them all and returneth home with a ruby.

The Sixth Story
Day the Second
Madam Beritola, having lost her two sons, is found on a desert island with two kids and goeth thence into Lunigiana, where one of her sons, taking service with the Lord of the country, lieth with his  daughter and is cast into prison.  Sicily after rebelling against King Charles and the youth being recognized by his mother, he espouseth his Lord's daughter, and his brother being likewise found, they are all three restored to high estate.

The Seventh Story
Day the Second
The Soldan of Babylon sendeth a daughter of his to be married to the King of Algarve, and she by divers chances, in the space of four years cometh to the hands of nine men in various places. Ultimately, being restored to ber father for a maid, she goeth to the King of Algarve to wife, as first she did.

The Eighth Story
Day the Second
The Count of Antwerp, being falsely accused, goeth into exile and leaveth his two children in different places in England, whither after awhile, returning in disguise and finding them in good case, he taketh service of the King of France and being approved and innocent, is restored to his former estate.

The Ninth Story
Day the Second
Bernabo of Genoa, duped by Ambrogiuola, loseth his good and commandeth that his innocent wife be put to death.  She escapeth and serveth the Soldan in a man's habit.  Here she lighteth upon the deceiver of her husband and bringeth the latter to Alexandria, where her traducer being punished, she resumeth woman's apparel and returneth to Genoa with her husband, rich.

The Tenth Story
Day the Second
Paganino of Monaco stealeth away the wife of Messer Ricciardo di Chinzia, who learning where she is, goeth thither and making friends with Paganino, demandeth her again of him.  The latter concedeth her to him, and she will; but she refuseth to return with him and Messer Ricciardo dying, she becometh the wife of Paganino.

DAY THE THIRD:
OF SUCH AS HAVE, BY DINT OF DILIGENCE, ACQUIRED SOME MUCH DESIRED THING AND RECOVERED SOME LOST GOOD.

The First Story
Day of the Third
Masetto of Lamporecchio feigneth himself dumb and becometh gardener to a convent of women, who all flock to lie with him.

The Second Story
Day of the Third
A Horsekeeper lieth with the wife of King Agilulf, who becoming aware thereof, without word said, findeth him out and polleth him; but the polled man polleth all his fellows on likewise and so escapeth hap.

The Third Story
Day of the Third
Under colour of confession and of exceeding niceness of conscience, a lady being enamoured of a young man, bringeth a brave friar, without him misdoubting him thereof, to afford a means of giving entire effect to her pleasure.

The Fourth Story
Day of the Third
Dom Felice teacheth Fra Fuccio how he may become beatified by performing a certain penance of his fashion, which the other doth, and Dom Felice meanwhile leadeth a merry life of it with the good man's wife.

The Fifth Story
Day of the Third
Ricciardo, surnamed il Zima, giveth Messer Francesco Vergellesi a palfrey of his and hath therefor his leave to speak with his wife.  She keeping silence, he in her person replieth unto himself, and in effect after ensueth in in accordance with his answer.

The Sixth Story
Day of the Third
Ricciardo Minutolo, being enamoured of the wife of Filippello Fighinolfi and knowing her jealousy of her husband, contriveth, by representing that Filippello was on the ensuing day to be with his own wife in a bagnio, thinking to be with her husband, she findeth that she hath abidden with Ricciardo.

The Seventh Story
Day of the Third
Tedaldo Elisel, having fallen out with his mistress. departeth Florence and returning thither, after awhile, in a pilgrim's favour, speaketh with the Lady and maketh her cognisant of her error; after which he delivereth her husband, and who had been convicted of murdering him, from death and reconciling him with his brethren, thence forward discreetly enjoyeth himself with his mistress.

The Eighth Story
Day of the Third
Ferondo, having swallowed a certain powder, is emtombed for dead and being taken forth of the sepulchre by the Abbot, who enjoyeth his wife the while, is put in prison and given to believe that he is in purgatory; after which being raised up again, he reareth for his own a child begotten of the Abbot on his wife.

The Ninth Story
Day of the Third
Gilette de Narbonne recovereth the King of France of a fistuola and demandeth for her husband Bertrand de Roussillon, who marrieth her against his will and betaketh him for despite to Florence, where, he paying court to a young lady, Gillette, in the person of the latter, lieth with him and hath by him two sons; wherefore after, holding her dear, he entertaineth her for his wife.

The Tenth Story
Day of the Third
Alibech, turning hermit, is taught by Rustico, a Monk, to put to the Devil in Hell, and being after brought away thence, becometh Neerbale his wife

 Day the Fourth
THOSE WHOSE LOVES HAVE HAD UNHAPPY ENDINGS

The First Story
Day the Fourth
Tancred, Prince of Salerno, slayeth his daughter's lover and sendeth her his heart in a bowl of gold; whereupon, poisoned water over it, she drinketh thereof and dieth.

The Second Story
Day the Fourth
Fra Alberto giveth a lady to believe that the Angel Gabriel is enamoured of her and in his shape lieth with her sundry times; after which for fear of her kinsmen, he casteth himself forth of her window into the canal and taketh refuge in the house of a poor man, who on the morrow carrieth him, in the guise of a wild man of the woods, to the piazza, where, being recognized, he is taken by his brethren and put in prison

The Third Story
Day the Fourth
Three young men love three sisters and flee with them into Crete, where the eldest sister for jealousy slayeth her lover.  The second, yielding herself to the Duke of Crete, saveth her sister from death, whereupon her own lover slayeth her and fleeth with the eldest sister.  Meanwhile the third lover and the youngest sister are accused of the new murder and being taken, confess it; then, for fear of death, they corrupt their keepers with money and flee to Rhodes, where they die in poverty.

The Fourth Story
Day the Fourth
Gerbino, against the plighted faith of his grandfather, KingGuglielmo of Sicily, attacketh a ship of the King of Tunis, to carry off a daughter of his, who being put to death of those on board, he slayeth these latter and is himself beheaded.

The Fifth Story
Day the Fourth
Lisabetta's brothers slay her lover, who appeareth to her in a dream and showeth her where he is buried, whereupon she privily disinterreth his head and setteth it in a pot of basil.  Thereover making moan a great while every day, her brothers take it from her and she for grief dieth a little thereafterward.

The Sixth Story
Day of the Fourth
Andrevuola loveth Gabrotto and recounteth to him a dream she hath had, whereupon he telleth her one of his own and presently dieth suddenly in her arms.  What while she and a waiting woman of hers bear him to his own house, they are taken by the officers of justice and carried before the Provost, to whom she discovereth how the case standeth.  The Provost would fain force her, but she suffereth it not and her father, coming to hear of the matter, procureth her to be set at liberty, she being found innocent; whereupon, altogether refusing to abide longer in the world, she becometh a Nun.

The Seventh Story
Day of the Fourth
Simona lovetrh Pasquino and they being together in a garden, the latter rubbeth a leaf of sage against his teeth and dieth.  She, being taken and thinking to show the Judge how her lover died, rubbeth one of the same leaves against her teeth and dieth on like wise.

The Eighth Story
Day of the Fourth
Girolamo loveth Salvestra and being constrained by his mother's prayers to go to Paris, returneth and findeth his mistress married; whereupon he entereth her house by stealth and dieth by her side; and he being carried to a church, salvestra dieth beside him.

The Ninth Story
Day of the Fourth
Sir Guillaume de Roussillon giveth his wife to eat the heart of Sir Guillaume de Guardestaing by him slain and loved of her, which she after coming to know, casteth herself from a high casement to the ground and dying, is buried with her lover.

The Tenth Story
Day of the Fourth

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

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Table of Contents
The Canterbury TalesThe Assembly of FowlsChaucer's A. B. CChaucer's DreamThe Court of LoveThe Cuckoo and the NightingaleThe House of Fame The Legend of Good WomenMiscellaneous PoemsTroilus and Cressida
AppendixGeoffrey Chaucer Biography

Beginning to delve into the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, written 1380's to 1390's. His greatness recognized in his time. A possible indication that his career as a writer was appreciated came when Edward III granted Chaucer "a gallon of wine daily for the rest of his life" for some unspecified task. This was an unusual grant, but given on a day of celebration, St George's Day, 1374, when artistic endeavours were traditionally rewarded.

THE CANTERBURY TALES

The prologue
The group to travel on a pilgrimage and tell stories,
a group of 30:

A Knight
A young Squire, son of the Knight
A Yeoman
A Prioress, a Nun (Madame Eglentine)
A Priestes, another Nun
A Monk
A Friar (name = Huberd)
A Merchant
A Clerk (of Oxenford)
A Sergeant of the Law
A Frankelin (rich landowner) (also a member of Parliament)
A Haberdasher
A Carpenter
A Dyer
A Weaver
A Tapestry Maker
A Cook
A Shipman
Doctor of Physic
A good Wife (had 5 husbands)
A poor Parson of a town
A Ploughman
A Miller
A gentle Manciple (steward or purveyor)
A Reeve 
A Sompnour (summoner)
A gentle Pardonere
The leader telling the story.
= a total of 30 persons.

The Knight's Tale

Summa Theologica

The Summa Theologica (Latin: "Summary of Theology" or "Highest Theology") is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274). It was intended as a manual for beginners as a compilation of all of the main theological teachings of the time. It summarizes the reasoning of all points of Christian theology, which before the Protestant Reformation subsisted solely in the Roman Catholic Church. The Summa's topics follow a cycle: the existence of God; God's creation, Man; Man's purpose; Christ; the Sacraments; and back to God. It is famous for its five arguments for the existence of God, the Quinquae viae (Latin: five ways). Throughout his work, Aquinas cites Augustine of Hippo, Aristotle, and other Christian, Jewish, Muslim and ancient pagan scholars.

FIRST PART
Question 1. The Nature and Extent of Sacred Doctrine (10 articles)
Question 2. The existence of God (3 articles)
Question 3. Of the Simplicity of God (8 articles)
Question 4. The Perfection of God (3 articles)
Question 5. Of Goodness in General (6 articles)
Question 6. The Goodness of God (4 articles)
Question 7. The Infinity of God (4 articles)
Question 8. The Existence of God in Things (4 articles)
Question 9. The Immutability of God (2 articles)
Question 10. The Eternity of God (6 articles)
Question 11. The Unity of God (4 articles)
Question 12. How God is known by Us (13 articles)
Question 13. The Names of God (12 articles)
Question 14. Of God's Knowledge (16 articles)
Question 15. Of Ideas (3 aricles)
Question 16. Of Truth (8 articles)
Question 17. Concerning Falsity (4 articles)
Question 18. The Life of God (4 articles)
Question 19. The Will of God (12 articles)
Question 20. God's Love (4 articles)
Question 21. The Justice and Mercy of God (4 articles)
Question 22. The Providence of God (4 articles)
Question 23. Of Predestination (4 articles)
Question 24. The Book of Life (3 articles)
Question 25. The Power of God (6 articles)
Question 26. The Divine Beatitude (4 articles)

TREATISE ON THE MOST HOLY TRINITY (QQ. 27-43)
Question 27. The Processions of the Divine Persons (5 articles)
Question 28. The Divine Relations (4 articles)
Question 29. The Divine Persons (4 articles)
Question 30. The Plurality of Persons In GOD (4 articles)
Question 31. What Belongs to the Unity or Plurality in God
(4 articles)
Question 32. The Knowledge of the Divine Persons (4 articles)
Question 33. Of the Person of the Father (4 articles)
Question 34. Of the Person of the Son (3 articles)
Question 35. Of the Image (2 articles)
Question 36. Of the Person of  the Holy Ghost (4 articles)
Question 37. Of the Name of the Holy Ghost Love (2 articles)
Question 38. Of the Name of the Holy Ghost, as Gift (2 articles)
Question 39. Of the Persons in Relation to the Essence
(8 articles)
Question 40. Of the Persons as Compared to the Relations or Properties (4 articles)
Question 41. Of the Persons in Reference to the Notional Acts
(6 articles)
Question 42. Of Equality and Likeness Among the Divine Persons (6 articles)
Question 43. The Mission of the Divine Persons (8 articles)

TREATISE ON THE CREATION (QQ 44-49)
Question 44. The Procession of Creatures from God, and of the First Cause of All Things (4 articles)
Question 45. The Mode of Emanation of Things From the First Principle. (8 articles)
Question 46. Of the Beginning of the Duration of Creatures
(3 articles)
Question 47. Of the Distinction of Things in General (3 articles)
Question 48. The Distinction of Things in Particular (6 articles)
Question 49. The Cause of Evil (3 articles)

TREATISE ONN THE ANGELS (QQ 50-64)
Question 50. On the Substance of the Angels Absolutely Considered (5 articles)
Question 51. Of the Angels in Comparison With Bodies
(3 articles)
Question 52. Of the Angels in Relation to Place (3 articles)
Question 53. Of the Local Movement of the Angels (3 articles)
Question 54. Of the Knowledge of the Angels (5 articles)
Question 55. Of the Medium of the Angelic Knowledge
(3 articles)
Question 56. Of the Angel's Knowledge of Immaterial Things
(3rticles)
Question 57. Of the Angel's Knowledge of Material Things
(5 articles)
Question 58. The Mode of Angelic Knowledge (7 articles)
Question 59. The Will of the Angels (4 articles)
Question 60. Of the Love or Dilection of the Angels (5 articles)
Question 61. Of the Production of the Angels in the Order of Natural Being (4 articles)
Question 62. Of the Perfection of the Angels in the Order of Grace and of Glory (9 articles) 
Question 63. The Malice of the Angels with Regard to Sin
(9 articles)
Question 64. The Punishment of the Demons (4 articles)

TREATISE ON THE WORK OF THE SIX DAYS (QQ. 65-74)
Question 65. The Work of Creation of Corporeal Creatures
(4 articles)
Question 66. On the Order of Creation Toward Distinction
(4 articles)
Question 67. On the Work of Distiction in Itself (4 articles)
Question 68. On the Work of the Second Day (4 articles)
Question 69. On the Work of the Third Day (2 articles)
Question 70. Of the Work of Adornment, as Regards the Fourth Day (3 articles)
Question 71. On the Work of the Fifth Day (1 article)
Question 72. On the Work of the Sixth Day (1 article)
Question 73. On the Things that Belong to the Seventh Day
(3 articles)
Question 74. On all the Seven Days in Common (3 articles)

TREATISE ON MAN (QQ. 75-102)
Question 75. Of Man Who is Composed of a Spiritual and a Corporeal Substance; and in the First Place, Concerning What Belongs to the Essence of the Soul. (7 articles)
Question 76. Of the Union of Body and Soul (8 articles)
Question 77. Of those Things which Belong to the Powers of the Soul in General (8 articles)
Question 78. Of the Specific Powers of the Soul (4 articles)
Question 79. Of the Intellectual Powers. (13 articles)
Question 80. Of the Appetitive Powers in General (2 articles)
Question 81. Of the Power of Sensuality (3 articles)
Question 82. Of the Will (5 articles)
Question 83. Of Free-Will (4 articles)
Question 84. How the Soul While United to the Body Understands Corporeal Things Beneath it. (8 articles)
Question 85. Of the Mode and Order of Understanding
(8 articles)
Question 86. What our Intellect Knows in Material Things
(4 articles)
Question 87. How the Intellectual Soul Knows Itself and all Within Itself. (4 articles)
Question 88. How the Human Soul Knows What is Above Itself
(3 articles)
Question 89. Of the Knowledge of the Separated Soul (8 articles)
Question 90. Of the First Production of Man's Soul (4 articles:
Question 91. The Production of the First Man's Body (4 articles)
Question 92. The Production of the Woman (4 articles)
Question 93. The End or Term of the Production of Man
(9 articles)
Question 94. Of the State  and Condition of the first Man as Regards His Intellect (4 articles)
Question 95. Of things Pertaining to the First Man's Will -- Namely Grace and Righteousness (4 articles)
Question 96. Of the Mastership Belonging to Man in the State of Innocence (4 articles)
Question 97. Of the Preservation of the Individual in the Primitive State (4 articles
Question 98. Of the Preservation of the Species (2 articles)
Question 99. Of the Condition of the Offspring as to the body
(2 articles)
Question 100. Of the Condition of the Offspring as Regards Righteousness (2 articles)
Question 101. Of the Condition of the Offspring as Regards Knowledge (2 articles)
Question 102. Of Man's Abode, Which is Paradise (4 articles)

TREATISE ON THE CONSERVATION AND GOVERNMENT OF CREATURES (QQ. 103-119)
Question 103. Of the Government of Things in General
(8 articles)
Question 104. The Special Effects of the Divine Government
(4 articles)
Question 105. Of the Change of Creatures by God (8 articles) 
Question 106. How One Creature Moves Another (4 articles)
Question 107. The Speech of the Angels (5 articles)
Question 108. Of the Angelic Degrees of Hierarchies and Orders
(8 articles)
Question 109. The Ordering of the Bad Angels (4 articles)
Question 110. How Angels Act on Bodies (4 articles)
Question 111. The Action of Angels on Man (4 articles)
Question 112. The Mission of the Angels (4 articles)
Question 113. Of the Guardianship of the Good Angels
(8 articles)
Question 114. Of the Assaults of the Demons (5 articles)
Question 115. Of the Action of the Corporeal Creature (6 articles)
Question 116. On Fate (4 articles)
Question 117. Of Things Pertaining to the Action of Man
(4 articles)
Question 118. Of the Production of Man from Man as to the Soul
(3 articles)
Question 119. Of the Propagation of Man as to the Body
(2 articles)

THE SECOND PART ("Prima Secundae")
First Part of the Second Part (QQ. 1-114)
TREATISE ON THE LAST END (QQ. 1-5)