In this book, a man disguises himself as the angel Gabriel in order to seduce “Lady Numbskull,” but is exposed when the ironically-named Honest Man betrays him. After a king cuts off a lock of his hair in the night, a groom does the same to every servant in the palace to evade punishment in a story from this book. A tale from this collection about three rings bequeathed by Melchizedek inspired the “ring parable” from Gotthold Lessing’s play Nathan the Wise. In the final story from this collection, a marquis threatens to kill his children to test the patience of his wife Griselda. Dioneo tells the tenth and final story of each “day” in this collection. For 10 points, name this collection of 100 tales told by Florentines sheltering from the Black Death, by Giovanni Boccaccio. ■END■
ANSWER: The Decameron [or Il Decameron] (The first line refers to Day 4, Story 2. The second line refers to Day 3, Story 2.)
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