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INTRODUCTION 
PROEM 
– FIRST DAY – 
NOVEL I. – Ser Ciappelletto cheats a holy friar by a false confession, and dies; and, having lived as a very bad man, is, on his death, reputed a saint, and called San Ciappelletto. 

NOVEL II. – Abraham, a Jew, at the instance of Jehannot de Chevigny, goes to the court of Rome, and having marked the evil life of clergy, returns to Paris, and becomes a Christian.

NOVEL III. – Melchisedech, a Jew, by a story of three rings averts a danger with which he was menaced by Saladin. 

NOVEL IV. – A monk lapses into a sin meriting the most severe punishment, justly censures the same fault in his abbot, and thus evades the penalty. 

NOVEL V. – The Marchioness of Monferrato by a banquet of hens seasoned with wit checks the mad passion of the King of France. 

NOVEL VI. – A worthy man by an apt saying puts to shame the wicked hypocrisy of the religious.

NOVEL VII. – Bergamino, with a story of Primasso and the Abbot of Cluny, finely censures a sudden access of avarice in Messer Cane della Scala.

NOVEL VIII. – Guglielmo Borsiere by a neat retort sharply censures avarice in Messer Ermino de' Grimaldi. 

NOVEL IX. – The censure of a Gascon lady converts the King of Cyprus from a churlish to an honourable temper. 

NOVEL X. – Master Alberto da Bologna honourably puts to shame a lady who sought occasion to put him to shame in that he was in love with her. 
 
– SECOND DAY – 
NOVEL I. – Martellino pretends to be a paralytic, and makes it appear as if he were cured by being placed upon the body of St. Arrigo. His trick is detected; he is beaten and arrested, and is in peril of hanging, but finally escapes. 

NOVEL II. – Rinaldo d'Asti is robbed, arrives at Castel Guglielmo, and is entertained by a widow lady; his property is restored to him, and he returns home safe and sound. 

NOVEL III. – Three young men squander their substance and are reduced to poverty. Their nephew, returning home a desperate man, falls in with an abbot, in whom he discovers the daughter of the King of England. She marries him, and he retrieves the losses and re-establishes the fortune of his uncles. 

NOVEL IV. – Landolfo Ruffolo is reduced to poverty, turns corsair, is captured by Genoese, is shipwrecked, escapes on a chest full of jewels, and, being cast ashore at Corfu, is hospitably entertained by a woman, and returns home wealthy. 

NOVEL V. – Andreuccio da Perugia comes to Naples to buy horses, meets with three serious adventures in one night, comes safe out of them all, and returns home with a ruby.