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Often appears with: adultery, divorce, and separation · justice as a virtue · fable, romance, and storytelling · torture and execution · the city and urban life · slavery and bondage · sexual secrecy · sexual farce · punishment of freedmen · midnight secret meetings · marriage and betrothal · marital absence
Usually: narrative (4) · betrayal (2) · irony (2) · injustice endured (1) · temptation (1) · the fall of the great (1) · detachment (1) · humor (1) · indignation (1)
Augustus governs household discipline harshly when needed: he restrains a slave in fetters, makes a steward’s death a joke, executes a freedman for adultery, breaks a secretary for bribery, and punishes tutors exploiting his son’s rule.
to give loose to their insolence and rapacity in the province he governed, he caused heavy weights to be tied about their necks, and had them thrown into a river. LXVIII. In his early youth various aspersions of an infamous character were heaped upon him. Sextus Pompey reproached him with being an effeminate fellow; and M. Antony, with earning his adoption from his uncle by prostitution. Lucius Antony, likewise M…
Zima’s impersonation of the silent wife tricks the knight and secures ongoing adultery with the wife, while the wife later arranges the midnight meeting during Messer Francesco’s six-month absence.
well to it that thou be not seen), and thou shalt find me waiting for thee, and we will have our fill of mutual cheer and solace all night long." Having thus answered for the lady, Zima resumed his own person and thus replied to the lady:--"Dearest madam, your boon response so overpowers my every faculty that scarce can I frame words to render you due thanks; and, were I able to utter all I feel, time, however long,…
Dioneo introduces a comic tale from Perugia: Pietro di Vinciolo takes an overly hot-blooded wife, and the story builds around her sexual scheming and a hidden lover under a hen-coop discovered by mishap.
to the place, sees him, and apprehends the trick played on him by his wife, which nevertheless he finally condones, for that he is not himself free from blame. -- When the queen had done speaking, and all had praised God that He had worthily rewarded Federigo, Dioneo, who never waited to be bidden, thus began:--I know not whether I am to term it a vice accidental and superinduced by bad habits in us mortals, or whet…
An old bawd’s story leads the baker’s wife to entertain a lover at night; she catches the wrongdoer returning early, while the lover narrates similar adultery involving a fuller's wife, smoke, and a bin.
when thou werest at my baines yester night. Barbarus hearing this returned incontinently home, and called his servant Myrmex, commanding him to deliver the slippers againe to the right owner. The old woman had scant finished her tale when the Bakers wife gan say: Verily she is blessed and most blessed, that hath the fruition of so worthy a lover, but as for me poore miser, I am fallen into the hands of a coward, who…