Some things I found on Gurochan View attachment 837468
That is illustrating a story from Boccaccio's Decameron
(when a group of people spent their time telling stories while they were in isolation in their house because of a pandemic ...) -
quoting an old translation that's online:
GIANNI DI PROCIDA BEING FOUND WITH A YOUNG LADY, WHOM HE LOVED AND WHO HAD BEEN GIVEN TO KING FREDERICK OF SICILY, IS BOUND WITH HER TO A STAKE TO BE BURNT; BUT, BEING RECOGNIZED BY RUGGIERI DELL' ORIA, ESCAPETH AND BECOMETH HER HUSBAND
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