Griselda (folklore)
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Griselda is a figure in European folklore noted for her patience and obedience.
Griselda is sent away as her husband remarries, from a set of Sienese paintings in the National Gallery London (c.1490, by the unnamed Master of the Story of Griselda)
One of Griselda's children is taken away from her in an illustration from Eliza Haweis' 1882 book Chaucer for Children
Summary of Decameron tales
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This article contains summaries and commentaries of the 100 stories within Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron.
A tale from The Decameron, by John William Waterhouse
The basilica of Santa Maria Novella, with a Renaissance façade that was completed about 100 years after The Decameron was written
Equestrian statue of Can Grande della Scala
The Ponte Vecchio, which was brand new in Boccaccio's time, in Florence. The city is the setting of many stories of the Decameron.