A character in this book opens a box to find coals instead of a feather dropped by Gabriel during the Annunciation. In this book, a character marries Neerbal after being taught how to “put the devil back in Hell” by the monk Rustico. A poem by John Keats adapts a story in this book in which a woman cries every day over a pot of basil containing her lover’s severed head. In a different story in this collection, a man wins a woman’s affections after cooking his pet falcon for her as a meal. A nobleman pretends to murder his children to test the loyalties of his wife Griselda in this collection’s final story, one of several told by Dioneo over 10 days. For 10 points, Florentines fleeing the Black Death tell stories to each other in what collection by Giovanni Boccaccio? ■END■
ANSWER: The Decameron [or Decamerone]
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