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Quotation from The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

“they censured as intolerably harsh the probation to which he had subjected Griselda”

Giovanni Boccaccio (spoken by Dioneo (narrator))

The Decameron, Day 10, Novel 10, trans. J. M. Rigg (1903)

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio

At the end of the last tale the guests at the wedding feast praise Gualtieri's discretion but condemn the cruelty of his tests.

Citation: "they censured as intolerably harsh the probation to which he had subjected Griselda" — Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, Day 10, Novel 10, trans. J. M. Rigg (1903). (id the-decameron-q8)

Portrait: A Tale from the Decameron (1916), painting by John William Waterhouse, John William Waterhouse, Public domain.

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