street with his wife.

Violathia endures for a long time the cruelties of her jealous husband,
Count Berosi, but finally yields to the persistent kindness of her
lover, Charmillo. Just as he has succeeded in alienating his wife's
affections, Berosi experiences a change of heart. His conduct makes the
divorce impossible, and she is forced to remain the wife of a man she
loathes, and to dismiss Charmillo who has really gained her love.

Tellisinda, to avoid the reproach of barrenness, imposes an adopted boy
on her husband, but shortly afterward gives birth to a child. She is
forced to watch a spurious but amiable heir inherit the estate of her
own ill-natured son. (Cf. footnote 2 at end of this chapter.)

Even unmarried ladies, Miramillia finds, are not without their
discontents. Amalia is vexed over the failure of a ball gown. Clorilla
is outranked by an acquaintance whose father has obtained preferment.
Claribella pouts because a man has shot himself for love of her rival.
Selinda mourns her lap-dog dead.

Just as Miramillia is ready to give over her search for a happy woman,
Adario, her son, returns in company with a former lover of hers whose
daughter he has saved from a villain at the expense of a wound from
which he has but then recovered. Naturally the girl rewards him with her
hand, and all ends well.[7]

Of the stories in this diversified collection that of Anziana approaches
in kind, though not in degree, the tragic pathos of Isabella and the Pot
of Basil ("Decameron," IV, 5). The second narrative has all the glamor
of adventure in the barbaric East, and the romantic interest that