Abraham, a Jew, i, 2
Abruzzi, vi, 10
Achaia, vii, 9
Acre, fair of, ii, 9
Adriano, ix, 6
Adulterous wife, way of dealing with, vii, 8
Adultery, defence of, vi, 7
distinction between, and prostitution, vi, 7; viii, 1
night with wife sold for 500 florins, vi, 3
Agilulf, King of Lombards, iii, 2
Agnese, Madonna, vii, 3
Agnesa, v, 5
Agnolella, v, 3
Agolante de' Lamberti, ii, 3
Alatiel, daughter of Beminedab, ii, 7
Alba, ii, 9
Alberto of Bologna, physician, i, 10
Alessandro Chiarmontesi, ix, 1
Alessandro de' Lamberti, ii, 3
Alesso Rinucci, vi, 3
Alexandria, ii, 6; ii, 7; ii, 9; x, 9
Alexis, St., chant of, vii, 1
Algarve, King of, ii, 7
Alibech, iii, 10
Alps, x, 9
Altopascio, abbey near Lucca, vi, 10
Amalfi (see Salerno), iv, 10
Ambruogia Madonna, wife of Guasparruolo Cagastraccio, viii, 1
Ambruogio Anselmini of Siena, vii, 10
Ambrogiuolo da Piacenza, ii, 9
Amerigo, Abate da Trapani, v, 7
Anagni, v, 3
Ancona, iii, 7
March of, ix, 4
Andreuola, iv, 6
Andreuccio di Pietro da Perugia, ii, 5
Anichino alias Lodovico, vii, 7
Animals, love of, ii, 6
Ansaldo Gradense, x, 5
Antigonio of Formagosta, ii, 7
Antioch, ix, 6
Antioco, dependant of Osbech, king of Turks, ii, 7
Antonio d' Orso, Bp. of Florence, vi, 3
Apulia, x, 6
fairs of, ix, 10
holy places of, ii, 6
Aquamorta, ii, 7
Aragon, King Peter of, ii, 6; x, 7
Queen of, x, 7
Arcite and Palamon, Dioneo and Fiammetta sing of, vii, 10
Arezzo, vii, 4
Argos, vii, 9
Aristippus, v, 1
Aristippus, philosopher, x, 8
Aristotle, vi, 10
Armenia, ii, 7; v, 7
Arno, vi, 2; viii, 9
Arrighetto Capece of Naples, ii, 6
Arrigo, a German, ii, 1
Atheism imputed to Guido de' Cavalcanti, vi, 9
Athens, ii, 7; x, 8
Duke of, ii, 7
Atticciato, iv, 7
Aubade, v, 3
Authari, King of Lombards, iii, 2
Avicenna, viii, 9
Avignon, viii, 2
Azzo da Ferrara, Marquis, ii, 2
Babylon, Soldan of, x, 9
Bachi, mountains of the, vi, 10
Baffa, ii, 7
Bagnio, lady goes to, without distress, iii, 6
Balducci, Filippo, iv, Introd.
Barbanicchi, my lady of the, viii, 9
Barbary, iv, 4; v, 2
Barletta, ix, 10
Baronci, the, of S. M. Maggiore, vi, 6
"Baroncio a," vi, 5
Baroni, the, vi, 10
Bartolommea di Lotto Gualandi, ii, 10
Basano, King of Cappadocia, ii, 7
Basil, the pot of, iv, 5
Basques, viii, 3
Queen of, viii, 9
Baths, men and women use same water, ii, 2
women bathe on Saturday, ii, 10
Battledore, Lady, alias Lackbrain, Featherbrain, Vanity, Slender-Wit. (See Lisetta da Ca' Quirino.)
Beatrice Madonna, wife of Egano de' Galluzzi, vii, 7
Belcolore Monna, viii, 2
Belfry-Breeches, vii, 8
Beminedab, Soldan of Babylon, ii, 7
Benedict, St., house of, iii, 4
Benevento, Battle of, ii, 6
Bengodi (see Berlinzone), viii, 3
Beritola Caracciola, ii, 9
Bergamina, viii, 9
Bergamino, a jester, i, 7
Berlinghieri Arriguccio, vii, 8
Berlinzone, viii, 3; viii, 9
BernabÒ Lanellin, Genoese, merchant, ii, 9
Bernabuccio, v, 5
Bernard, St., lament of, vii, 1
Bertelle, youngest daughter of Narnald Cluada, iv, 3
Berto della Massa, iv, 2
Betto Brunelleschi, vi, 9
Biagio Pizzini, vi, 10
Bible quoted, iii, 7
Biliuzza, viii, 2
Binguccio dal Poggio, viii, 2
Biondello, ix, 8
Birds in Tuscany, vii, Introd.
Boccaccio's poverty, iv, Introd.
defence of illicit love, iii, 7
Boccamazza Pietro, v, 3
Body-snatching in Naples, ii, 5
Bologna i, 10; iii, 8; vii, 7; viii, 9; x, 4; x, 10
Bologna, praise of ladies of, vii, 7
Brescia, iv, 6
Bridge of Greese, ix, 9
Brigantine, a, iv, 3
Brindisi, ii, 4
Bruges, ii, 3
Brunetta, vi, 4
Bruno, a painter, viii, 3; viii, 6; viii, 9; ix, 3; ix, 5
Buffalmacco, a painter, viii, 3; viii, 6; viii, 9; ix, 3; ix, 5
Buffia, the land of, vi, 10
Buglietto, viii, 2
Buonaccorri da Ginestreto, Ser, viii, 2
Buonconvento, ix, 4
Burgundians, wickedness of, i, 1
Cacavincigli, viii, 9
Calabria, v, 6
Calais, ii, 8
Calandrino, a painter, viii, 3; viii, 6; viii, 9; ix, 3; ix, 5
Camaldoli, ix, 5
Camerata (under Fiesole), vii, 1; ix, 5
Campi, v, 9
Candia, iv, 3
Capsa (Tunis), iii, 10
Carapresa, v, 1
Carthage, iv, 4
Casolan apple, iii, 4
Cassandra, v, 1
Castel Guglielmo, ii, 2
Castello da Mare di Stabia, x, 6
Catalina Madonna, x, 4
Catella, iii, 6
Caterina di Lizio, v, 4
Cathay, x, 3
Cavalcanti Guido, iv, Introd.; vi, 9
Cecco, son of Angiulieri, ix, 4
Cecco, son of Fortarrigo, ix, 4
Cephalonia, island of, ii, 4
Cerchi, Vieri de, ix, 8
Certaldo, vi, 10
Charles, King, the victorious, x, 6
Chastity, Neifile on, viii, 1
Chattilon, Sieur de, vi, 10
Chremes, x, 8
Chess, iii, 10
Chiassi (near Ravenna), v, 8
Chichibio, a cook, vi, 4
Chios, ii, 7
Ciacco, the glutton, ix, 8
Ciapperello da Prato, i, 1
Cicale, v, 4; v, 10
Ciesca, niece of Fresco da Celatico, vi, 8
Cimon. (See Galesus.)
Cino da Pistoia, iv, Introd.
Cipseus, father of Iphigenia, v, 1
Cisti, the baker, vi, 2
Ciuriaci, chamberlain to the Prince of Morea, ii, 7
Ciuta, maid to Monica Piccarda, viii, 4
Civellari, Countess of, viii, 9
Clergy, corruption of, i, 6 and 7; iii, 7; viii, 2 and 4
gluttony of, i, 2
live by alms, iii, 4
simony of, i, 2
Cluny, Abbot of, i, 7; x, 2
Compline, iii, 4
Confession of the dying, i, 1
Constantine and Manuel, nephews of Emperor of Constantinople, ii, 7
Constantinople, iii, 7
Coppo di Borghese Domenichi, v, 9
CorfÙ, ii, 4
Corsairs, Genoese, v, 7
Corsignano, ix, 4
Corso Donati, ix, 8
Crete, iv, 3; v, 1; x, 9
Duke of, iv, 3
Crivello, v, 5
Crucifixion, punishment of, x, 8
Currado Gianfigliazzi, vi, 4
King of Sicily's lieutenant, v, 7
de' Malespini, ii, 6
Customs, old Florentine, vi, 9
Cypriotes, the, histories of, v, 1
Cyprus, i, 9; ii, 4; ii, 7; iii, 7; v, 1
merchants of, x, 9
Dante, iv, Introd.
Dead, return of, vii, 10
Dego della Ratta, vi, 3
Decameron, Boccaccio's defence of, iv, Introd. and Epilogue
contemporary opinion of, iv, Introd. and Epilogue
ladies of, Proem
effect of Dioneo's most licentious tale on, iii, 3
Fiammetta's story, iii, 6
her gravity and severe manner, iii, 5
Filomena's cynical prayer, iii, 3
Dentistry, vii, 9
Dianora, Madonna, x, 5
Dining, water served for hands, i, 7
Dogana, viii, 10
Dominic, St., vii, 3
"Don Meta," viii, 9
Dreams, iv, 6
Egano de' Galluzzi, vii, 7
Egina, ii, 7
Egypt, x, 9
Elena, viii, 7
Encarch, a Catalan, ii, 9
England, ii, 3; ii, 8
England, Barons of, borrow from Lombards, ii, 3
daughter of King, disguised as abbot, ii, 3
fair ladies of, vii, 7
King of, ii, 3
Queen of, viii, 9
Epicureans, vi, 9
Epicurus, i, 6
Ercolano, v, 10
Ermellina, wife of Aldobrandino Palermini, iii, 7
Fableaux, French, iii, 10
Faenza, v, 5
Fano, v, 5
Fast Days, Friday and Saturday, wearying therefore, Proem, ii, 10
Faziuolo da Pontremoli, iii, 7
Federigo di Filippo Alberighi, v, 9
Federigo di Neri Perlgolotti, i, 7
Felice, Dom, iii, 4
Ferondo, iii, 8
Ferrara, viii, 10
Fiammetta, description of, iv, 10
her knowledge of the evils of Naples, ii, 5
Fiesole, viii, 4
pardoning at, vii, 1
Filippa, wife of Rinaldo de' Pugliesi, vi, 7
Filippello Fighinolfi, iii, 6
Filippo, son of NiccolÒ Comacchini, ix, 5
Filippo Argenti, ix, 8
Filippo Minutolo, Archbp. of Naples, ii, 5
Filippo Santodeccio alias Tedaldo Elisei, q.v.
Fineo of Armenia, v, 7
Fiordaliso, Madonna, ii, 5
Fire, death by, v, 6
penalty of murder, iv, 7
Fire-ship, use of, iv, 4
Flagellants (Battuti), iii, 4
Flanders, iv, 2
Florence, iii, 7; iii, 9; iv, 7; v, 9; vi, 2; vi, 3; vii, 6; viii, 7; ix, 8
account of, iii, 7
Fra Cipolla's journey in, vi, 10
Podestas of, from the Marche, viii, 5
rich in humanity, iii, 6
wiles abound in, iii, 3
Algarve, vi, 10
Baldacca, inn at, vi, 10
Borgo de' Greci, vi, 10
Corso degli Adimari, vi, 9
S. Croce, i, 6
S. Giovanni, viii, 3
tombs around, vi, 9
Loggia de' Cavicciuli, ix, 8
Macino, viii, 3
S. Maria Novella, Proem, viii, 9
S. Maria della Scala, viii, 9
S. Maria a Verzaia, viii, 5
Mercato Vecchio, ix, 3
Ognissanti, field of, viii, 9
Or San Michele, vi, 9
S. Pancrazio, iii, 4
quarter of, vii, 1
S. Paolo, iv, 7
Parione, vi, 10
Plague in, Proem
Porta a S. Gallo, viii, 3
Porta S. Piero, vi, 3
S. Reparata, vi, 9
Ripoli, convent of the ladies of, viii, 9
Sardinia (a suburb), vi, 10
Via del Cocomero, viii, 9
Florentine customs, vi, 17. (See Palio and under Camerata.)
Florin, iii, 3
Forese da Rabatta, vi, 5
Forlimpopoli, viii, 9
Fortune in love, its results, iii, 7
Foulques, iv, 3
Fra Alberto da Imola. (See Berto della Massa.)
Fra Cipolla, vi, 10
Fra Nastagio, iii, 4
Fra Rinaldo, vii, 3; vii, 10
France (as opposed to Provence), iv, 9
blood royal of, vi, 8
fair ladies of, vii, 7
King of, iii, 9; vii, 7; x, 9
Queen of, viii, 9
Francesca de' Lazzari, ix, 1
S. Francis, iv, 2; vii, 3
Order of, iii, 4. (See also Puccio de' Rinieri for a Tertiary called Frate.)
Frederic, Emperor, v, 5; x, 9
Second, i, 7; ii, 5; ii, 6; v, 6
Fresco da Celatico, vi, 8
Friar of S. Anthony, vi, 10
Friars admitted freely to prisoners, iii, 7
attacks on, i, 1 and 2; iii, 3 and 10; iv, 2; vii, 7
character of, iii, 7
dirtiness of, iv, 2
executors of wills, iv, 2
hypocrisy of, iv, 2
immorality of, with nuns, iii, 7, and elsewhere
meanness of, i, 6; i, 7
Minor, i, 6; viii, 9
old and new, iii, 7
power over women, iii, 7
rapacity of, iii, 3
tricks of, iv, 2
truth about. (See Epilogue.)
Friars, vanity of, iii, 7
wickedness of, iii, 7
Friuli, x, 5
Fulvia, x, 8
Fulvus, Titus Quintius, x, 8
Gabriel, St., Archangel, iv, 2
feathers of, vi, 10
Gabriotto, iv, 6
Gaeta, beauty of coast thence to Reggio, ii, 4
Galen, i, 6
Galeone, vi, 2
Galesus (or Cimon), v, 1
Gangrene, iv, 10
Garden, songs in, by torchlight, iii, 10
love scene in, iv, 7, et passim
Gautier, Count of Antwerp, ii, 8
Gemmata, ix, 10
Genoa, i, 5; i, 8; ii, 6; ii, 9; iii, 3; iv, 3; viii, 1
nobility of, i, 8
Genoese carracks, piracy by, ii, 4
Gentile Carisendi, x, 4
Gerard of Narbonne, iii, 9
Gerbino, grandson of Guglielmo, of Sicily, iv, 4
Geri Spina, vi, 1; vi, 2
German guards, ii, 1
Germans, disloyalty of, viii, 1
Gherardo di Bonsi, vi, 10
Ghibelline, some of the seven ladies were, x, 8
Ghino di Tacco, x, 2
Ghismonda, daughter of Tancred, Prince of Salerno, iv, 1
her defence of love, iv, 1
Ghita, Monna, vii, 4
Giacomina, v, 4
Giacomino da Pavia, v, 5
Gian di Procida, ii, 6
Giannello Sirignario, vii, 2
Gianni, v, 6
Gianni di Barolo, Dom, x, 10
Gianni Lotteringhi, master spinner, vii, 1
Gianni di Nello of Porta S. Piero, vii, 1
Giannole di Severino, v, 5
Giannucolo, father of Griselda, x, 10
Gigliuozzo Saullo, v, 3
Giliberto, x, 5
Gillette of Narbonne, iii, 9
Ginevra the Fair, x, 6
Giosefo, ix, 9
Giotto, vi, 5
Giovanna, v, 9
S. Giovanni, vi, 3
Giovanni del Bragoniera, vi, 10
Giovanni Gualberto, San, iii, 4
Girolamo di Leonardo Sighieri, iv, 8
Gisippus, x, 8
Giusfredi, ii, 6
Gostanza, v, 2
daughter of Guglielmo of Sicily, iv, 4
Granada, King of, iv, 4
Grassa the tripe woman, viii, 5
S. Gregory, his forty masses, iii, 3
Grignano, NiccolÒ da, ii, 6
Grimaldi, Ermino de', i, 8
Griselda, x, 10
Guasparrino d' Oria of Genoa, ii, 6
Guasparruolo da Saliceto, viii, 9
Guccio Imbrata, iv, 7; vi, 10
Guglielmo, King of Sicily, v, 7
II, King of Sicily, iv, 4
Borsiere, jester, i, 8
della Magna, x, 6
da Medicina, v, 5
and the Lady of VergiÙ, iii, 10
Guidi, the Counts, vii, 8
Guido degli Anastagi, v, 8
Guidotto da Cremona, v, 5
Guillaume de Cabestaing, iv, 9
Guiscardo, iv, 1
Gulfardo, German mercenary, viii, 1
Hawking, vi, 4
Holy Land, vi, 10
Holy Sepulchre, iii, 7; vii, 7
Hormisdas, v, 1
Horse, buying a, iii, 5
Hugnes, iv, 3
Husband as confessor, vii, 5
Immorality, abbot's excuse for, iii, 8
Filomena's prayer, iii, 3
of the times, Epilogue, vi, 10
Imola, vi, 2
India, vi, 10
Inns, iii, 7
Inquisition, i, 6
"Intemerata," vii, 1
Iphigenia, v, 1
Ippocrasso, viii, 9
Ireland, ii, 8
life in, "a very sorry suffering sort of life," ii, 8
Stamford in, ii, 8
Irony of Boccaccio against the Church, i, 2, et passim
Isabella, vii, 6
Isabetta, ix, 2
wife of Puccio de' Rinieri, q.v.
Ischia, v, 6
Isotta the Blonde, x, 6
Jacques Lamiens. (See Violante, daughter of Gautier.)
Jancofiore, viii, 10
Jasmine blossom, viii, 10
Jealousy, vii, 5
Jehannot de Chevigny, i, 11
Jerusalem, ix, 9
relics in, vi, 10
Jesters in Boccaccio's day, i, 8
their business of old, i, 8
Klarenza, ii, 7
Knight of the Bath, viii, 9
Lagina, iv, 7
Lamberto de' Lamberti, ii, 3
Lambertuccio, vii, 6
Lamentations of the Magdalen, a devotion, iii, 4
Lamporecchio, iii, 1
Landolfo di Procida, v, 6
Landolfo Ruffolo, ii, 4
Lapuccio, viii, 2
Laterina, viii, 9
Latin spoken by poor women, v, 2
Lauds, iii, 3
Laud-singers of S. Maria Novella, vii, 1
S. Laurence, vi, 10
Law, injustice of, to women, vi, 7
Lawyers, wickedness of, i, 1
Lazistan, v, 7; ix, 9
Lazzarino de' Guazzagliotri, vi, 7
Legnaia, viii, 9
Leonardo Sighieri, iv, 8
Leonetto, vii, 6
Lerici, ii, 6
Levant, the, iii, 8; v, 7
Licisca, a servant, Introd. to, vi, 10
Liello di Campo di Fiore, v, 3
Lipari Islands, ii, 6; v, 2
women of, sailors, v, 2
Lippo Iopo, painter, vi, 10
Lisa, x, 7
Lisabetta, iv, 5
Lisetta da Ca' Quirino, iv, 2
Lizio da Valbona, v, 4
Lo Scacciato, ii, 6
Lodovico alias Anichino, vii, 7
"Lombard Dogs," i, 1
Lombards, i.e. Italian merchants, bankers, i, 1
in London, ii, 3
one marries daughter of King of England, ii, 3
usury of, ii, 3
Lombardy, ix, 2; x, 9
London, ii, 8; iii, 2
Lorenzo of Pisa, iv, 5
Lotto, second-hand dealer, viii, 2
Louis, son of Gautier, ii, 8
Love, cause of death, iv, 8
great humaniser, v, 1
lovers pleading, iii, 5
making, a strange, iii, 5
may not be held in partnership like money, ii, 7
to be loved, ix, 9
Lunigiana, i, 4; ii, 6; iii, 7
Lusca, vii, 9
Lydia, vii, 9
Lysimachus, v, 1
Madeleine, twin sister of Ninette, iv, 3
Maffeo da Palizza, x, 6
Magistrates, mistaken zeal of, xii, 7
trick against, viii, 5
Magra, the, ii, 6
Majorca, ii, 7
Malagevole, iv, 7
Malgherida de' Ghisolieri, i, 10
Manfred, ii, 6; x, 6
Mangione, ix, 5
Manico di Scopa, viii, 9
Mannuccio della Cuculla, vii, 1
Marato, brother of Pericone, ii, 7
Marches, viii, 5
Marchese, Florentine actor, ii, 1
Marcus Varro, x, 8
Maremma, iv, 2
"in the world and in ——," vi, 6
Margarita, ix, 7
Maria Bolgaro, v, 6
Mariabdela, King of Tunis, v, 2
Marriage, early age of, ii, 6; iv, 3
in bed, ii, 3
merchant's idea of a perfect, ii, 9
without a priest, v, 4
Marseilles, iv, 3
Martellino, Florentine actor, ii, 1
Martuccio Gomito, v, 2
Masetto, iii, 1
Masetto da Lamporecchio, iii, 10
Maso del Saggio, vi, 10; viii, 3
Matilda, Lady, her laud, vii, 1
Matteuzzo, viii, 5
Mattins, iii, 3; iii, 4; iii, 8
Melchisedec, i, 3
Melisso, ix, 9
Menzogna, land of, vi, 10
Merchants of Italy, ii, 6; and see Lombards
hatred of, i, 2
think by marriage to have gentility, vii, 8
Messina, iv, 4; iv, 5; viii, 10
Meuccio di Tura, vii, 10
Michele Scalza, vi, 6
Mico da Siena, poet, x, 7
Milan, iii, 5; viii, 1; x, 9
"Milanese fashion" (to find a coarse moral in a tale), iii, 4
Minerva, v, 6
Minghino di Mingole, v, 5
Minuccio d' Arezzo, x, 7
Mita, Monna, vii, 10
Mitridanes, x, 3
Modena, x, 4
Monaco, ii, 10
pirates of, viii, 10
Monferrato, Marquis of, i, 5
Monks attacked, i, 4; iii, 4; iii, 8; ix, 10
Mont' Ughi, vi, 6
Monte Asinaio, iv, Introd.
Monte Morello, vi, 10; viii, 3
Monte Nero, ii, 10
Montesone, cross of, viii, 9
Montfort, Guy de, x, 6
Montisci, viii, 3
Morality, passim. (See ii, 9.) Boccaccio emphasises the base view of women. The whole story is told to this end, and the ladies themselves endorse this view. (See ii, 10.)
in merchant class, ii, 9
Morea, ii, 7
Prince of, ii, 7
Mother-in-law's tirade, vii, 8
Mourning, Florentine fashion of, iv, 8
Mugnone, viii, 3; ix, 6
Murderers beheaded in place of crime, iii, 7
Musciatto, Franzesi, i, 1
Musical boxes in beds of lovers, viii, 10
Naldino, v, 2
Naples, ii, 5; iii, 6; iv, 5; v, 6; vii, 2; viii, 10
arrival in, on Sunday eve at vespers, ii, 5
Bagnio in, iii, 6
Naples, body-snatching in, ii, 5
Charles I of, ii, 6
Charles II of, ii, 5
dangers of evil quarters in, ii, 5
loveliest city in Italy, iii, 6
mistress tricked into love in, iii, 6
Ruga Catalina, ii, 5
summer pleasures of, iii, 6
tilting, jousting at, iii, 6
Via Avorio, vii, 2
Narnald Cluada, iv, 3
Narsia, viii, 9
Nastagio degli Onesti, v, 8
Nathan, x, 3
Neerbale, iii, 10
Negro da Ponte Carraro, iv, 6
Nello, painter, ix, 3; ix, 5
Neri Mannini, vi, 6
Niccola da Cignano, viii, 10
Niccola da S. Lepidio, viii, 5
NiccolÒ Comacchini, ix, 5
Niccolosa, ix, 5; ix, 6
Niccoluccio Caccianimico, x, 4
Nicostratus of Argos, vii, 9
Nightingales, v, 4; vi, Epilogue
Ninette, iv, 3
Noble birth, Boccaccio's admiration of, iii, 7
Nones, iii, 6; v, Introd., vi, 10
Nonmiblasmetesevoipiace, Father, Patriarch of Jerusalem, vi, 10
Nonna de' Pulci, vi, 3
Nornieca, viii, 9
Nuns attacked, iii, 1 and 7; ix, 2
Nuta, vi, 10
Nuto Buglietti, viii, 2
Nuto, a gardener, iii, 1
Octavianus CÆsar, x, 8
Octroi officers vexatious people, viii, 3
Old Man of the Mountain, iii, 8
Orange blossom, viii, 10
Oretta, Madonna, vi, 1
Orsini, v, 3
Osbech, king of Turks, ii, 7
Paganino da Mare, a corsair, ii, 10
Palermini, Aldobrandino, iii, 7
Rinuccio, ix, 1
Palermo, ii, 5; iv, 4; v, 6; viii, 10; x, 7
Palio in Florence, the, vi, 3
Panago, the Counts of, x, 10
Paris, i, 1; i, 2; i, 7; ii, 8; ii, 9; iii, 9; iv, 8; vii, 7; viii, 7; viii, 9
Pasignano, the most holy god of, vii, 9
Pasimondas the Rhodian, v, 1
Pasquino, iv, 7
Paternoster, S. Julian's, ii, 2
Pavia, iii, 2; x, 9
S. Piero in Ciel d' Oro, x, 9
Penance, a curious, iii, 4
Peretola, vi, 4; viii, 9
Pericone da Visalgo, ii, 7
Peronella, vii, 2
Perrot, ii, 8
Persia, x, 4
Perugia, ii, 5; v, 10
Philippe le Borgne, i, 5
Pietro di Vinciolo, of Perugia, v, 10
Picardy, ii, 8
Piccarda, Monna, viii, 4
Piero di Fiorentino, vi, 6
Pietro. (See Teodoro.)
Pietro del Canigiano, viii, 10
Pineta of Ravenna, the, v, 8
Pinuccio, ix, 6
Piracy, ii, 10
Pirates, Italian, ii, 4
Pisa, ii, 10; viii, 10
Pisa, women of (ugly), ii, 10
Pistoia, iii, 5; ix, 1
church of Friars Minor, ix, 1
PodestÀ, power of, ii, 1
Poison, iv, 1; iv, 3
Ponza, island of, ii, 6
Pope, v, 7
Boniface, ii, 6; ii, 10
Porcellana, privileges of, vi, 10
Poverty no bar to gentilesse, iv, 1
Prato, vii, 7
S. Lucia di, viii, 7
Prester John, viii, 9
Priest, a body-snatcher, ii, 5
concerned in pig-stealing, viii, 6
Priests, Belcolore's verdict on, viii, 2
great pesterers of women, viii, 4
and village life, viii, 2
wrongers of husbands, viii, 2
Primasso the grammarian, i, 7
Procida, v, 6
ProvenÇals = Troubadours, iv, 9
Provence, iv, 3
"Psalter, the" = a nun's veil, ix, 2
Publius, Quintis Fulvus, x, 8
Puccini, Bernardo, x, 7
Puccino. (See Stramba.)
Puccio, Fra. (See Puccio de' Rinieri.)
Puccio de' Rinieri, iii, 4
Purgatory, iii, 8
Pyrrhus, vii, 9
Quintillian, vi, 10
Radicofani, x, 2
Ragnolo, Braghiello, iii, 8
Ravello, ii, 4
Ravenna, v, 8
Ravenna, every day a saint's day in, ii, 10
women of, easy lovers, v, 8
Reconstruction, crime of, iv, 7
Relics, vi, 10
Religious (friars), stupidity of, iii, 4
incapable of earning a livelihood, iii, 3
reasons for retirement from world, iii, 3
vanity of, iii, 3
Restagnon, iv, 3
Restituta, v, 6
Rhodes, ii, 7; iv, 3; v, i
Ribi, viii, 5
Ricciardo di Chinzica, judge of Pisa, ii, 10; iv, 10
Ricciardo de' Manardi da Bertinoro, v, 4
Ricciardo Minutolo of Naples, iii, 6
Ricciardo of Pistoia, called Zima, iii, 5
Rimini, vii, 5
Rinaldo d' Asti, ii, 2
Rinaldo de' Pugliesi, vi, 7
Rinieri, viii, 7
Robbery, highway, ii, 2
Romagna, v, 4; v, 8; ix, 6
cloth of, vi, 5
Rome, v, 3
bears and wolves near, v, 3
country around, state of, in Boccaccio's day, v, 3
deserted during papal exile, v, 3
faction in, v, 3
Romeo and Juliet. (See Sleeping potion.)
Rose water, viii, 10
Roses, white and red, iv, 6
Roussillon , Bertrand de, iii, 9
Roussillon, Guillaume de, iv, 9
Isnard de, iii, 9
Ruberto, King, vi, 3
lover of Sismonda, vii, 8
Ruggieri de' Figiovanni, x, 1
Ruggieri, son of Guglielmo of Sicily, iv, 4
Ruggieri da Jeroli, iv, 10
Ruggieri dell' Oria, v, 6
Rustico, iii, 10
Sage-bush, poisonous, iv, 7 (See Toad.)
Saint, scene at shrine of, ii, 1
how to become a, iii, 4
Saladin, i, 3; x, 9
Salerno, iv, 1; iv, 10
basil of, iv, 5
beauty of, ii, 4
fair of, viii, 10
Saluzzo, x, 10
Marquis Gualtieri of, x, 10
Salvestra, iv, 8
San Gallo, near Florence, pardoning at, iv, 7
Lucifer of, viii, 9
San Gimignano, iv, 5
Sandro Agolanti, ii, 1
Santa Fiora, Counts of, x, 2
Saracens, iv, 4
ships of the, v, 2
Sardinia, ii, 7; iii, 8; iv, 4
Saturday is holy after One, i, 1
Scala, Cane della, i, 7
Scalea in Calabria, v, 6
Scannadio, ix, 1
Scarabone Buttafuoco, house of (a dangerous brothel), ii, 5
Scholars a match for the devil, viii, 7
rash for woman to try conclusions with, viii, 7
Scotland, King of, ii, 3
Scott, Michael, viii, 9
Seneca, vi, 10
Settignano, viii, 3
Sicilian vespers, ii, 6
Sicily, iv, 4; v, 2; v, 7; x, 9
French in, x, 7
Sicofante and his wife, vi, Introd.
Siena, vii, 3; vii, 8; ix, 4; x, 2
S. Ambrose of, vii, 3
Camollia di, viii, 8
Campo Reggi, vii, 10
Porta Salaia, vii, 10
Sienese, simplicity of the, vii, 10
Simona, iv, 7
Simone, a doctor, ix, 3
da Villa, viii, 9
Sinigaglia, unhealthiness of, in summer, viii, 3
Sismonda, Monna, vii, 8
Sleeping potion used by abbot, iii, 8
Smyrna, ii, 7
Sodomy, i, 1; v, 10
of clergy, i, 2
Soldan, consort of, viii, 9
Solomon, vi, 10; ix, 9
Sophronia, x, 8
Spain, iv, 3; x, 1. (See also Basques.)
Alfonso of, x, 1
Spina, daughter of Currado de' Malaspina, ii, 8
Spinelloccio Tanena, viii, 8
Spinning, iv, 7
Spitting in church, i, 1
Squacchera, viii, 9
Stadic, the (chief of police in Naples), iv, 10
Stake erected in Piazza at Palermo, v, 6
Stecchi, an actor, ii, 1
Stramba alias Puccino, iv, 7
Strappado, the, ii, 1; iii, 2
Sunday observance, i, 1
Supper in garden, iii, 10
Susa, v, 2
Talano di Molese, ix, 7
Tamignano della Porta, viii, 9
Tancred, Prince of Salerno, iv, 1
"Te lucis ante terminum," vii, 1
Tedaldo Elisei, iii, 7
Tedaldo de' Lamberti, ii, 3
Teodoro, v, 7
Tessa, Monna, wife of Gianni Lotteringhi, vii, 1
wife of Caladrino, viii, 3; viii, 6; viii, 9; ix, 3; ix, 5
Thebaid desert, iii, 10
Theodelinde, wife of Agilulf, King of Lombardy, iii, 2
Tierce, Proem; iv, 10; v, 3; v, 6; v, 7; viii, 8
Tilt and joust in honour of mistresses, iii, 5; iii, 6
Tingoccio Mini, vii, 10
Toad poisonous, iv, 7
Tofano, vii, 4
Torello d' Istria da Pavia, x, 9
Torrenieri, ix, 4
Torture, ii, 3; ii, 9; iv, 10; v, 7. (See also Strappado.)
Trani, ii, 4
Trapani, v, 2; v, 7
Travelling in fourteenth century (from England to Rome), ii, 3
Traversari, Paolo, v, 8
Trecca, viii, 5
Tresanti, Pietro da, ix, 10
Treviso, ii, 1
Trial of bread and cheese, viii, 6
Troilus and Cressida, vi, Introd.
Trudaro, vi, Introd.
Truffia, land of, vi, 10
Tunis, iv, 4; v, 2
King of, iv, 4
Uberti, Neri degli, x, 6
Udine, x, 5
Ughi, S. Maria, vi, 2
Usimbalda, Abbess, ix, 2
Ustica island, iv, 4
Usury, i, 1
reviled by the people, i, 1
Val d' Arno, viii, 7
Val d' Elsa, vi, 10
Valle delle Donne, vi, 10, Epilogue
Varlungo, near Florence, viii, 2
Venetians all unstable, iv, 2
Venial sins quit by holy water, iii, 4
Venice, vi, 10
common sink of abomination, iv, 2
Grand Canal, iv, 2
Piazza di S. Marco, iv, 2
Rialto, iv, 2
"Verdiana Santa," v, 10
Vergellesi, Francesco dei, iii, 5
Vespers, iii, 4; v, 2; v, 3; x, 7
and a surgical operation, iv, 10
Villa Cuba, v, 6
Villeggiatura, v, 9
Violante, v, 7
daughter of Gautier, ii, 8
Wales, ii, 8
Washing hands before dining, ii, 2
Wax images as votive offerings, vii, 3
Were-wolf, ix, 7
Whipping of women servants, vi, Introd.
Wine, Greek, ii, 8
Vernaccia, ii, 10
Wit, vi, 3
Wives, partnership in, viii, 9
Women, an old woman's advice to, v, 10
attack on, vii, 7
Boccaccio dedicated to them from boyhood, iv, Introd.
Boccaccio's defence of a love of, iv, Introd.
cause of Boccaccio's verses, iv, Introd.
excuses for taking lovers, iii, 5
frailty of, ix, 9
honour intact until they sell their love, viii, 1
injustice of law to, vi, 7
obedience to their husbands, iii, 6
occupations of, iii, Prelim.
sleep naked, ii, 9
Wool trade, iv, 7
Zeppa di Mino, viii, 8
Zima. (See Riccardo of Pistoia.)
Zinevra, ii, 9
Zita Carapresa, ix, 10

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