The palace of pleasure; Elizabethan versions of Italian and French novels from Boccaccio, Bandello, Cinthio, Straparola, Queen Magaret of Navarre, and others. Done into English by William Painter. Now again edited for the fourth time by Joseph Jacobs Volume 3
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Painter’s third volume brings Italian and French prose tales into English for Elizabethan readers, drawing on writers such as Boccaccio, Bandello, Cinthio, Straparola, and Marguerite of Navarre. One narrator condemns the Countess of Celant’s violence before turning to a love match whose story ends in murder. In “The Lord of Virle,” Zilia speaks to a knight unable to answer her, making a closed-room encounter tense with old loyalties and danger. Elsewhere, Salimbene argues that mercy toward an enemy is more honorable than taking pleasure in his misfortune.
