The Hundred Old Tales  

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The Hundred Old Tales is the title of Edward Storer's translation of the Italian tale collection Il Novellino.

TOC

• I : Proem 35
• II : Of the rich embassy which Prester John sent to the noble Emperor Frederick 37
• III : Of a wise Greek whom a King kept in prison, and how he judged of a courser 40
• IV : How a jongleur lamented before Alexander the conduct of a knight, to whom he had made a gift on condition that the knight should give him whatsoever Alexander might present him with 44
• V : How a king committed a reply to a young son of his who had to bear it to the ambassadors of Greece 48
• VI : How it came into the mind of King David to learn the number of his subjects 50
• VII : Here it is told how the angel spoke to Solomon, and said that the Lord God would take away the kingdom from his son for his sins 51
• VIII : Of the gift of a king’s son to a king of Syria who had been driven from his throne 55
• IX : Here it is treated of an argument and a judgment that took place in Alexandria 58
• X : Here it is told of a fine judgment given by the slave of Bari in a dispute between a townsmen and a pilgrim 61
• XI : Here it is told how Master Giordano was deceived by a false disciple of his 63
• XII : Here it is told of the honour that Aminadab did to King David, his rightful lord 64
• XIII : Here it is told how Antigonus reproved Alexander for having a cythera played for his delight 65
• XIV : How a king had a son of his brought up in a dark place, and then showed him everything, and how women pleased him most 66
• XV : How a land steward plucked out his own eye and that of his son to the end that justice might be observed 67
• XVI : Here it is told of the great mercy wrought by Saint Paulinus the bishop 68
• XVII : Of the great act of charity which a banker did for the love of God 69
• XVIII : Of the judgment of God on a baron of Charlemagne 69
• XIX : Of the great generosity and courtesy of the Young King 70
• XX : Of the great liberality and courtesy of the King of England 72
• XXI : How three necromancers came to the court of the Emperor Frederick 77
• XXII : How the Emperor Frederick’s goshawk escaped to Milan 80
• XXIII : How the Emperor Frederick found a countryman at a fountain and asked leave to drink, and how he took away his drinking-cup 82
• XXIV : How the Emperor Frederick put a question to two wise men, and how he rewarded them 83
• XXV : How the Sultan gave two hundred marks to a man and how his treasurer wrote down the entry in his presence 85
• XXVI : Here it is told of a burgher of France 88
• XXVII : Here it is told of a great Moaddo who was insulted 90
• XXVIII : Here it is told of a custom that existed in the kingdom of France 91
• XXIX : Here it is told how some learned astrologers disputed about the Empyrean 92
• XXX : Here it is told how a Lombard knight squandered his substance 94
• XXXI : Here it is told of a story-teller of Messer Azzolino 95
• XXXII : Of the great deeds of prowess of Riccar Loghercio of the Isle 97
• XXXIII : Here is told a tale of Messer Imberal del Balzo 98
• XXXIV : How two noble knights loved each other with a great love 100
• XXXV : Here it is told of Master Thaddeus of Bologna 101
• XXXVI : Here it is told how a cruel king persecuted the Christians 102
• XXXVII : Here it is told of a battle between two kings of Greece 105
• XXXVIII : Of an astrologer called Melisus, who was reprimanded by a woman 106
• XXXIX : Here it is told of Bishop Aldebrandino, and how he was mocked by a friar 108
• XL : Of a minstrel whose name was Saladin 108
• XLI : A tale of Messer Polo Traversaro 110
• XLII : Here is told an excellent tale of William of Borganda of Provence 112
• XLIII : Here it is told of Messer Giacopino Rangone and what he did to a court player 115
• XLIV : Of a question that was put to a courtier 116
• XLV : How Lancelot fought at a fountain 116
• XLVI : Here it is told how Narcissus fell in love with his own image 117
• XLVII : Here it is told how a knight asked a lady for her love 119
• XLVII : Here it is told of King Conrad, father of Conradin 119
• XLIX : Here it is told of a physician of Toulouse and how he took to wife a niece of the Archbishop of Toulouse 120
• L : Here it is told of Master Francis, son of Master Accorso of Bologna 122
• LI : Here it is told of a Gascon woman, and how she had recourse to the King of Cyprus 123
• LII : Of a bell that was ordered in King John’s days 124
• LIII : Here it is told of a privilege granted by the Emperor to one of his barons 125
• LIV : Here it is told how the parish priest Porcellino was accused 126
• LV : Here is told a tale of a man of the court whose name was Marco 128
• LVI : How a man of the Marches went to study in Bologna 129
• LVII : The Woman and the Pear-tree 130
• LVIII : The Wisest of the Beasts 134
• LIX : Here it is told of a gentleman whom the Emperor had hanged 134
• LX : Here it is told how Charles of Anjou loved a lady 137
• LXI : Here it is told of the philosopher Socrates, and how he answered the Greeks 141
• LXII : Here is told a tale of Messer Roberto 144
• LXIII : Of good King Meladius and the Knight Without Fear 146
• LXIV : A tale told of the Court of Puy in Provence 146
• LXV : Here it is told of Queen Iseult and Messer Tristan of Lyonesse 154
• LXVI : Here it is told of a philosopher who was called Diogenes 158
• LXVII : Here it is told of Papirius and how his father brought him to the council 159
• LXVIII : Of a question which a young man proposed to Aristotle 160
• LXVIX : Here it is told of the great justice of the Emperor Trajan 161
• LXX : Here it is told how Hercules went into the forest 163
• LXXI : Here it is told how Seneca consoled a woman whose son had died 164
• LXXII : Here is told how Cato lamented against fortune 167
• LXXIII : How the Sultan being in need of money, sought to find occasion to proceed against a Jew 168
• LXXIV : The story of a vassal and a lord 169
• LXXV : How the Lord entered into partnership with a minstrel 171
• LXXVI : Here it is told of the great killing done by King Richard 174
• LXXVII : Here it is told of Messer Rinieri, a knight of the Court 175
• LXXVIII : Here it is told of a philosopher much given to the vulgarisation of science 177
• LXXIX : Here it is told of a Court player who adored a lord 178
• LXXX : The Pilgrim and the Ugly Woman 181
• LXXXI : Here below it is told of the council which was held by the sons of King Priam of Troy 182
• LXXXII : Here it is told how the Lady of Shalott died for love of Lancelot of the Lake 184
• LXXXIII : How Christ going one day with his disciples in a deserted place, they saw great treasure 186
• LXXXIV : How Messer Azzolino Romano arranged a great charity 188
• LXXXV : Of a great famine that was once in Genoa 192
• LXXXVI : The Emperor and the Pilgrim 193
• LXXXVII : How a man went to shrive himself 194
• LXXXVIII : Here is told of Messer Castellano da Cafferi of Mantua 194
• LXXXIX : Here is told of a Court player who began a story that never ended 195
• XC : Here is told how the emperor Frederick killed a falcon of his 196
• XCI : How a certain man confessed to a friar 197
• XCII : Here it is told of a good woman who had made a fine pie 198
• XCIII : Here it is told of a countryman who went to shrive himself 199
• XCIV : Here it is told of the fox and the mule 199
• XCV : Here it is told of a countryman who went to the town 201
• XCVI : Here it is told of Bito and Messer Frulli of San Giorgio near Florence 201
• XCVII : Here it is told how a merchant carried wine overseas in casks with two partitions and what happened 205
• XCVIII : Here it is told of a merchant who bought caps 206
• XCIX : Here it is told a pretty tale of love 207
• C : How the Emperor Frederick went to the Old Man of the Mountain 211