Boccaccio: The Decameron (Unabridged)

The Decameron (Unabridged): There is no offence in putting one's brain…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Pampinea is absolutely right in what she says…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Thus dismissed by their new queen…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Finding himself without employment…

The Decameron (Unabridged): 'Then tell me, my son…'

The Decameron (Unabridged): With this he fell silent.

The Decameron (Unabridged): When Philomena left off speaking…

The Decameron (Unabridged): The ladies listened with a tinge…

The Decameron (Unabridged): The queen and all the company…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Next to Philostrato sat Lauretta.

The Decameron (Unabridged): The sun was beginning to set…

The Decameron (Unabridged): How often has it happened that those…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Neiphile's account of the misfortunes…

The Decameron (Unabridged): The perils encountered by Rinaldo d'Este…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Seeing that this could be done without…

The Decameron (Unabridged): When Pampinea's story reached its triumphant…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Fiammetta began, for it was now her turn.

The Decameron (Unabridged): 'Andreuccio, I'm sure that all this affection…'

The Decameron (Unabridged): This made Andreuccio quite convinced…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Fiammetta's account of Andreuccio's adventures…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Hearing of this from one of his gaolers…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Had Emilia's story gone on any longer…

The Decameron (Unabridged): The princess bitterly lamented her earlier…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Getting wind of this…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Now a gentleman called Antigono…

The Decameron (Unabridged): The various misadventures that befell…

The Decameron (Unabridged): This request delighted the count…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Perotto, meanwhile, had grown up in Wales…

The Decameron (Unabridged): After Elissa had served her turn…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Reluctant as he was anyway to kill her…

The Decameron (Unabridged): The story told by their queen was roundly…

The Decameron (Unabridged): So they went home to Paganino's…

The Decameron (Unabridged): This story had them all in such fits of laughter…

The Decameron (Unabridged): There are scores of men, and women too…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Philostrato's story made the ladies laugh…

The Decameron (Unabridged): When Pampinea finished speaking…

The Decameron (Unabridged): This said, she drew out from beneath her long…

The Decameron (Unabridged): When Philomena fell silent on finishing her tale…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Pamphilo concluded his tale of Brother Puccio…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Elissa had nothing left to say…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Having given Ricciardo's words more credence…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Fiammetta fell silent amid a chorus of praise…

The Decameron (Unabridged): 'Now I'll have you know that I am a friar…'

The Decameron (Unabridged): He put on his hat and pilgrim's smock again…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Emilia's story reached its conclusion.

The Decameron (Unabridged): When he had finished eating…

The Decameron (Unabridged): If she was not to infringe Dioneo's privilege…

The Decameron (Unabridged): She bade them goodbye…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Dioneo had closely followed the queen's narrative.

The Decameron (Unabridged): Time and again the good ladies…

The Decameron (Unabridged): But that's as far as I want to take this story…

The Decameron (Unabridged): As she listened to her father…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Fiammetta's story had several times…

The Decameron (Unabridged): After lunch Lisetta, with a companion…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Hearing the end of Pampinea's story…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Lauretta concluded her story and fell silent…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Elissa finished her tale.

The Decameron (Unabridged): The ladies found Philomena's tale enormously…

The Decameron (Unabridged): When Pamphilo had delivered himself of his story…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Emilia's story reached its conclusion…

The Decameron (Unabridged): So ended Neiphile's story…

The Decameron (Unabridged): As the king had completed his tale…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Shortly afterwards the maid…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Here ends the fourth day of the Decameron…

The Decameron (Unabridged): So Cimone returned to his shipmates…

The Decameron (Unabridged): The queen spoke highly of Pamphilo's story…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Emilia's story was unanimously approved.

The Decameron (Unabridged): Elissa finished her tale and listened…

The Decameron (Unabridged): The story of the nightingale had sent…

The Decameron (Unabridged): The ladies had so much enjoyed Neiphile's story…

The Decameron (Unabridged): The ladies were all on tenterhooks…

The Decameron (Unabridged): As Lauretta finished, Philomena, at the queen's…

The Decameron (Unabridged): When Philomena finished speaking…

The Decameron (Unabridged): The queen concluded her tale…

The Decameron (Unabridged): The young wife, therefore, reached an…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Amused though they were by Dioneo's tale…

The Decameron (Unabridged): While Licisca was talking the women…

The Decameron (Unabridged): When Pampinea finished her tale…

The Decameron (Unabridged): The ladies were still chuckling over Giotto's…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Philostrato's story made the ladies…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Each one of the party had told a story…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Those simple folk, men and women…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Now certain of the ladies felt that this topic…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Had it been your pleasure, my lord…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Emilia's tale was greeted with boisterous…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Philostrato could not disguise his allusion…

The Decameron (Unabridged): When he heard the end of Elissa's story…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Lauretta ended her tale…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Well, what am I to say?

The Decameron (Unabridged): The entire company agreed that Isabella's…

The Decameron (Unabridged): It was generally agreed that Beatrice…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Arriguccio left his house and went as fast…

The Decameron (Unabridged): The ladies had so much enjoyed Neiphile's story…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Now a few days after killing the hawk…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Only the king was left to tell a tale…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Zephyr, the West Wind, got up as the afternoon…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Everyone, lads and lasses alike…

The Decameron (Unabridged): The ladies laughed so much at Pamphilo's tale…

The Decameron (Unabridged): When Elissa reached the end of her story…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Emilia came to the end of her story…

The Decameron (Unabridged): No sooner was Philostrato's tale finished…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Poor Calandrino, how the ladies laughed at him!

The Decameron (Unabridged): After a long, long time the night gave place…

The Decameron (Unabridged): After sunrise, Elena approached the wall…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Seeing that his drift tended entirely towards…

The Decameron (Unabridged): The ladies found it painful to listen…

The Decameron (Unabridged): The pooling of wives, as practised by the two…

The Decameron (Unabridged): 'Speak freely: I see you still don’t know me all…'

The Decameron (Unabridged): There is no need to ask how much laughter…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Once Jancofiore was in possession of the money…

The Decameron (Unabridged): When Dioneo concluded his tale…

The Decameron (Unabridged): How pleased I am, my lady…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Philomena fell silent.

The Decameron (Unabridged): The things Calandrino said about his wife…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Neiphile finished her tale…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Calandrino spent the entire evening…

The Decameron (Unabridged): The party had derived amusement…

The Decameron (Unabridged): When Pamphilo's story was ended…

The Decameron (Unabridged): It remained only for the queen to tell a story…

The Decameron (Unabridged): The tale of the queen's had the ladies…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Dioneo wished that the ladies in his audience…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Everyone applauded the generosity…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Great, indeed, was the liberality of the King…

The Decameron (Unabridged): To be generous with one's own blood…

The Decameron (Unabridged): The entire merry throng, one and all…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Who could give a full account of the debate…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Fiammetta came to the end of her story…

The Decameron (Unabridged): These words Minuccio soon set to the soft…

The Decameron (Unabridged): When Pampinea finished…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Though Titus was embarrassed to accept…

The Decameron (Unabridged): 'And so, looking at the matter reasonably…'

The Decameron (Unabridged): At the conclusion of Philomena's narrative…

The Decameron (Unabridged): The gentlemen were astounded…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Torello was over the moon when he heard this…

The Decameron (Unabridged): In accordance with his request…

The Decameron (Unabridged): It seems to me, my gentle ladies…

The Decameron (Unabridged): It took her a supreme effort…

The Decameron (Unabridged): Dioneo's story was ended…

The Decameron (Unabridged): They sang many more songs after that…